Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:17:04 -0800
Reply-To: Todd Last <Rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Todd Last <Rubatoguy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: 1985 - Horn COntact ring on Steering WHeel
In-Reply-To: <50F46EF1.7030705@turbovans.com>
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You might want to rethink that as WD-40 will attract dust and dirt and
my actually contribute to wear.
I found this out talking to a clock repair person who stated that the
number one cause of failure of mechanical clocks was people spraying
WD-40 on them thinking they were lubricating the mechanism - yet what it
did was attract contaminants into the mechanism causing the clock to
eventually stop.
It only takes a minute to pull the steering-wheel - I would go with the
dielectric grease instead.
Todd
'88 Westy
On 1/14/2013 12:47 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
> reminds me ..
> people could do something to lube their horn contact rings.
>
> the wear badly eventuallyat one spot ..since most of the time the van is
> driving straight ..
> wearing that one spot.
>
> If Ihave the steering wheel off I use dielectric grease on the horn
> contanct ring.
> If I don't want to take it off ....I squirt some WD in there .
> any sort of electric-friendly lube rather than 'just nothing' for years
> and decades.
>
> scott
>
>
> On 1/14/2013 8:36 AM, Dick Wong wrote:
>> Don't know much about the horn contact ring on the Vanagons (yet),
>> but I've
>> been pulling parts from an 86 in a junkyard. I think I remember it
>> still
>> had a steering wheel (black, no center pad) attached, I can be your
>> salvager
>> (actual cost and shipping) if you need something.
>>
>> -Dick Wong-
>> 78 Scirocco
>> Original Owner
>> 87 Syncro 2.5 (slightly crispy)
>> Third Owner
>> 12 Golf TDI
>> Original Co-Owner
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>> Behalf Of
>> Jeff Lincoln
>> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 8:05 AM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: 1985 - Horn COntact ring on Steering WHeel
>>
>> So in the midst of tearing everything apart to replace my front heater
>> blower (success!!!) I somehow got things a little wonky when I put the
>> steering wheel back on and that contact ring snagged on the little
>> tab and
>> it tore the ring at the bottom. That's no good.
>>
>> It there any way to replace that or am I kinda SOL?
>>
>> --
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>> '85 GL (Gertie)
>> '78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus
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