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>From: Greg Merritt <gregm@engin.umich.edu>
>At 12:25 AM -0000 4/28/97, Melissa & Jim wrote:
>>There should be no side play in the steering gearbox output shaft. The
>>Bentley manual has a good cross section of this and you can see that there
>>are a pair of angular contact ball bearings that get adjusted to just take
>>out the play.
>>
>>The good news is that this is adjustable; the bad news is that it's hard to
>>get to the adjustment.
>>
>
>Thanks Jim,
>
> is this the smaller slotted-screw-with-locknut on the top of the
>box, or the humongous socket-head-screw-with-locknut on the bottom of the
>gear box? I'll have another look at the manuals; I apparently missed
>something the first time through!
I'd have to check the manual to be completely sure, but I think it's the
latter. I made a tool for this by brazing a nut to the threads of a bolt.
Pick one that fits in the big hex, and you can get a wrench on the other.
Use a very short bolt.
Jim
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Melissa Kepner Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org jadney@vwtype3.org
Laura Kepner-Adney
Madison, Wisconsin
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