Date:         Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:38:11 -0500
Reply-To:     Stephen Edwards <welfarewrkr@IGC.ORG>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Edwards <welfarewrkr@IGC.ORG>
Subject:      Steering too stiff and seems to be getting stiffer
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My wife and I drive a 1991 Vanagon GL with over 200K on it. Recently
I had the indicator signal stalk replaced - it got broken off, there
was something else that needed doing and I had a repair shop do it.

Since the repair the steering seems to be getting harder and harder
to turn. Maybe this is a coincidence - the van has many miles on it
after all - but my wife who drives it daily, thinks it started with
the repair. What could the shop have done that would have had this
effect?

I should say, the signal doesn't cancel any more after you complete
the turn. And I would take it back for that, of course, but at this
point I'd like to know what's wrong BEFORE I trust it to that shop
again.  This is a shop I've been going to for years, but lately they
seem to have fallen off.

It's a power steering model but the fluid is topped up and there's
none of the noise you'd normally get if there was a power-steering-
pump problem.

Please p-mail me with replies as I seem to have gotten dropped off
the list.

Thanks,

Steve Edwards, 91` GL Vanaru in Chicago.