Date:         Sat, 23 Nov 2013 19:12:56 -0800
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From:         Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject:      Re: Noisy steering wheel
Comments: To: Alain Thibault <alainthibault@TELUS.NET>
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The brass ring that is in the wheel can be replaced. Often you will find them broken, worn through in spots. I think van cafe sells the rings.

A pic of the ring is here on my blog

http://shufti.wordpress.com/?s=Horn+contact+ring

The spring tab that I think is an exotic copper alloy (David B. Where are you?) also gets worn and distorted. Sometimes it gets worn into a nasty sharp thing. I don't know where you can get replacement for that. If I recall correctly it is riveted on to the turn signal switch assembly.

Alistair




> On Nov 23, 2013, at 7:02 PM, Alain Thibault <alainthibault@TELUS.NET> wrote:
> 
> Would the ring need replacing or just put back in place? 
> 
> Sent from my iPad 2
> 
>> On 2013-11-23, at 18:22, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> I bet it is the horn contact ring being chewed up by the harder (beryllium?) copper contact strip. Gotta pull the wheel and see.
>> or it could be plastic surround rubbing.
>> 
>> alistair
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 23, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Alain Thibault <alainthibault@TELUS.NET> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Allo all
>>> My steering wheel makes noise as if there was sand in the mechanism... which is not the case of course... It seems to be moving freely though...Would that mean that it needs to be oiled? Actually can I put oil in there? 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad 2
>>