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Re: (ET) steering mounting bearing



Broken/loose roll pin afixing the sector gear to the sector shaft, wear of the Woodruff key or keyways in either the sector gear and shaft, or incomplete meshing of the sector gear and pinion gear.Often it takes two people to track it down. You would be fortunate if it was a loose steering wheel.At least you would know that it would come off. <VBG>

RJ


On 8/5/2013 3:33 PM, Charlie wrote:
My I5 steering also occasionally gives me the "sharp click" (that's a
good description of the sound, really).  I haven't been able to figure
it out either, though.  Mine won't do it in the shop, only in the
yard.

--Charlie

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:01 PM, tb <tbamc gbta net> wrote:
I'm (still) looking for the source of a sharp 'click', when I just start 
to turn the steering wheel.  I can move the wheel back and forth just a 
few inches, and it will continue to click one time, each time I move it in 
the other direction.  It sounds most like it's coming from the area of the 
rear mounting bracket but I don't see any play in this area.

I do see a fair amount of movement in the front bearing area though.  I presume 
everything under the saddle bracket is the bearing?  The bracket doesn't move, 
but the bearing moves maybe 1/16" or so, each way.  Should this be dead 
solid?  It doesn't really look like this movement is causing the noise, at the 
front bearing, but maybe it's causing it at the rear of the shaft?

If this needs replaced, it looks like the whole steering assy. needs 
dismantled?

Thanks.

Thon




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