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On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 00:03, Steven Cooper wrote: > Ever since having a supposedly new steering box installed by a mechanic > several years ago, the steering has suffered from a niggling problem. The > steering wheel center position moves under some circustances, generally when > parking in those tight awkward spots requiring heavy hauling on the wheel. > I cann't actually notice the wheel slipping while parking, but once out on > the road and driving straight I notice that the center position is different > from before parking. Having lived with this problem for years I finally > decided to pull the steering box out and have a look to see if I could pin > down what was wrong. > The only thing I could notice was some damage to the roller shaft splines > near the top. I don't think the problem is with the box. More likely you have something that is not tight. How about the rubber coupler between the shaft and the box? Is the pinch bolt at the pitman arm tight? Are those splines good? Was the pinch bolt at that spline tight?? Is the steering wheel tight? The picture of the box doesn't look like the boxes I see on LHD cars. Unless it is the camera angle. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~