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Old Apr 19, 2004 | 08:10 PM
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This is going to be a little hard to explain. there is somthing wrong with my steering, well kind of. the car seems to be turning fine but i have some give to the steering wheel. the wheel will turn about 2 or 3 inches before turning the car but if i let the wheel go it will not move back thoughs inches. almost like it is not greased or somthing. i can also here the horn scrapping against the steering wheel like there is no space between the steering wheel and the horn button. i am very sorry the explaination is kind of well the ***** but i really hope somone may have had it happen to the and will understand what i am talking about. this just started to happen somwhat out of the blue but it is very possible that i my have hit a pot hole, after all i am from PEI canada and i think it is one of the things we are known for. hahahaha
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Old Apr 19, 2004 | 08:15 PM
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Well, as for the scraping sound that is probably the horn contact button scraping on the contact ring because it wants to be lubed with some silicone dielectric grease.
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Old Apr 19, 2004 | 08:15 PM
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The wheel on my old 85 base would stay to the right so one day I decided to check fluid level and there wasn't any! haha. Filled it up and BING would return to center but of course it still had some slop, any good SA/FB does
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