Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:07:40 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Scraping steering wheel - not screws
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Its not the wheel - I have a large-diameter early wheel on my '86 and it
works fine.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Neil Crawford <vidublu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm on me third swheel and still the scraping, horn blaring and now
> the wheel seems loose as well. I've adjusted the ignition switch housing
> up
> and down multiple times. Nothing doing. The latest swheel is from an
> '86.
> Since I'm supposed to be, officially, using '81 ~ '85 parts, could the
> swheel itself be a problem?
>
> Me horn is now disconnected. Not a good thing.
>
>
> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
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>
> --
> Neil Crawford
> '82 Diesel Westy
> Me other car is Swedish
>
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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
Crescent Beach, BC
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