Re: steering column noise

["Dave Hall" <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk>]

There's an offset collar around the steering column tube on the
bulkhead that can be rotated to adjust the tube position.  I think
it has holes to help VW tool whatever to turn it.  Try that if it's
the column grating..

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
www.hallvw.clara.net/
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Ayres <comwest@well.com>
To: type3@vwtype3.org <type3@vwtype3.org>
Date: 31 December 1998 07:57
Subject: Re: steering column noise


>Chad=> I bought the steering colum from a fellow listee, ...Then it
>    => started doing it.
>
>Another thing you might check is whether the steering shaft is
rubbing
>on the edge of the cover tube. Look up from under the car, between
the
>footwell and the steering box. The cover tube comes through the
body,
>and if your steering box is a little off-axis from the shaft, it
can
>push the shaft up enough to grate against the tube. If this is the
>problem, just use it, it'll eventually go away as you wear off the
end
>of the tube.
>
>Steven Ayres, Prescott AZ
>'66 KGhia 1600
>
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