>Thanks to those of you who suggested the problem might lie in one of the
>three flexible couplings. The two underneath looked to be in proper
>condition, but when I pulled back the boot at the base of the steering
>column, I was horrified to find what was left of that coupling connected
>only by a few strands of reinforcement line formerly embedded in the rubber!
>Three of the four bolts were completely free of their mounting holes, and
>the steering was only "catching" when the column rotated and balled the
>disintegrated rubber up against the lower coupling bracket. When I unbolted
>what was left, I got no piece out larger than 3/4" or so. And to think my
>wife and I were on the highway at 70 mph as late as Friday evening...
>Needless to say, I think Someone was watching over us.

Couldn't you feel slop (dead movement) in the wheel??
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut