Thanks Ken, You just confirmed what I deduced after wrestling with mine. Mine was scraping intermittently on the top right screw, causing the horn to sound most of the time. Cheers!
On 3/19/08, Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@comcast.net> wrote: > > Ben, > You can adjust the ignition switch housing which will in turn give you > more clearance between the steering wheel horn ring and the finger that > pushes against it. Remove the lower steering column cover and you will > see an allen head bolt that is clamping the ignition switch housing to > the steering column. Loosen this allen bolt (if it isn't already loose) > and then push the ignition switch housing down away from you. You will > see that there is an adjustment that can be made here. Now take a look > at the clearance between the steering wheel and the steering column > cover. You should have more clearance. Adjust until you get enough > clearance to stop the scraping noise. Now you should be good to go. > Lock the allen bolt and put the lower cover back on and you should be > golden. > > Hope this helps, > Ken Wilford > John 3:16 > www.vanagain.com > > > Ben Cichowski wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > (1988 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2WD, MT, ej22) > > > > I have a scraping sound in my steering wheel. I read archives a while > ago and discovered that this is likely due to the 2 screws under there > scraping along the brass ring. I checked mine and thought that could be it > as the screws were a little loose, and there appeared to be some wear on the > ring...but the scraping sound persists, even with tight screws. > > > > It seems like my wheel sits too close to the column - like right against > the plastic column covers. Is there supposed to be a nylon washer/spacer in > there or something that I'm missing - or is there an adjustment that I'm not > seeing in Bentley that brings the wheel out just a touch? > > > > Thanks - Ben > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail(R)-get > your "fix". > > http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx > > > > >
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