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The steering gear mounting clamp has two slots in it, one of which aligns with a groove on the front end crossbar. There are two slots, one for type 34 and one for all other type 3. The type 34 has a different 0" column angle. It might be that your steering gear clamp was remounted using the wrong alignment slot. Tim Dapper > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 19:53:13 -0600 > From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org> > To: type3@vwtype3.org > Subject: Re: [T3] Steering doughnut failures? > On 20 Apr 99, at 12:01, Diane & Dave Burden wrote: > > > What has been your MTBF for the rubber steering doughnut? I > > had one fail 2 years ago (maybe 1.5), and the replacement finally broke > > this morning. > > > > We drive the car daily, but the odo'd broken so I'd guess we put on about > > 12-15k miles a year, which I'm sure plays into the life of this part. > > > > Is this normal or am I getting cheap replacements? > > This seems odd to me. In 30 years I have never replaced one on any > car, mine or customer's. > > I would be concerned that there is something about the alignment > between the steering gearbox and the wheel shaft that puts abnormal > stress on this disk. There is normally very little flex called for in > these. > > If you think the quality is a problem I'm sure I have an old but good > used OE one. > > Jim > - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/