[T3] Steering box play

Sean Bartnik sjbartnik at mac.com
Sun Mar 26 17:31:56 PDT 2017


Up-and-down play at the shaft the drop arm bolts to (aka the roller shaft) is adjustable via the small adjuster screw on the top cover of the steering box.  

I have 2 steering boxes apart on my dining room table if you wanna see what those adjustments are actually doing :-)


> On Mar 25, 2017, at 7:43 PM, Daniel Nohejl <d.nohejl at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Last year, with the invaluable assistance of Sean, we put a used OEM VW steering box in our car. The TRW one that had only been in there for two or three years had developed a lot of side-to-side play that we couldn’t adjust away as well as a thunking sound when we turned the steering wheel. Turned out there was a lot of play in the output shaft of that box. This used has been great for about 13k miles, but over the last few months it’s been taking a dive. Now, there’s a lot of side-to-side play (about 2.5”) and a thunking sound when the steering wheel is turned. I got under the car today and there’s loads of play in the output shaft….I could clearly see the shaft moving in and out when Jessica turned the steering wheel….it’s not a loose drop arm. For whatever reason, I pressed up on the drop arm around where the output shaft was. The thunk went away and Jessica said the steering wheel got much less sloppy. 
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> My understanding is that this kind of play isn’t adjustable and that something inside the box is likely to be worn out. I don’t want to go cranking down on any of the adjustments to cover over a potentially larger problem somewhere else in the box. Anyone have any experience with this issue?
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> Daniel
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