>Thanks to those of you who suggested the problem might lie in one of the >three flexible couplings. The two underneath looked to be in proper >condition, but when I pulled back the boot at the base of the steering >column, I was horrified to find what was left of that coupling connected >only by a few strands of reinforcement line formerly embedded in the rubber! >Three of the four bolts were completely free of their mounting holes, and >the steering was only "catching" when the column rotated and balled the >disintegrated rubber up against the lower coupling bracket. When I unbolted >what was left, I got no piece out larger than 3/4" or so. And to think my >wife and I were on the highway at 70 mph as late as Friday evening... >Needless to say, I think Someone was watching over us. Couldn't you feel slop (dead movement) in the wheel?? -- Andrew Grebneff 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut |
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