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Subject:Re: Noisy steering wheel
From:Eric Caron
Date:Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:07:07 -0500

Listers,

        Sometimes lurking here pays off!  I have also noticed a rubbing sound from my steering wheel rubbing the plastic pieces covering the colum.  I tried adjusting the pieces not realizing the wheel itself probably needs to be adjusted upward.

        I'd appreciate verbal instructions on how to do this. Remember I can't use pictures.  

Eric Caron 
85 GL Auto 

On Nov 24, 2013, at 5:41 AM, Frank Condelli <RAlanen@AOL.COM> wrote:

>        Yes, it may be the horn ring as others have pointed out but another cause of that noise can come from the steering wheel rubbing on the plastic cover for the steering column.  The steering column is adjustable up and down.  It may have for some reason drifted down or the plastic housing has come out of place.  There needs to be clearance between the bottom of the steering wheel and the top of the two pieces of the column cover.
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> On Nov 24, 2013, at 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:
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>> Noisy steering wheel
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> Cheers,    
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> Frank Condelli
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