Barry (and listers):
I have the same symptoms on my TR_6_: front to rear movement of the steering
wheel and horn which is not actually itermittent but rather blows the fuse. I
suspect my horn probelm is due to a faulty ground somewhere.
However, I am interested in fixing my steering wheel movement as I believe this
is not normal. I cannot relate Barry's description of his column to mine. I am
looking at both the TRF catalog (vol 2 page 229) and the VB catalog (page 86).
In neither of these diagrams do I see what I would describe as the "split clamp
connection to the steering rack".
Can anyone shed light on this? Also how big is the bolt in question when 1/3 of
its diameter would result in 1 inch of motion? Am I missing something else
here?
Thanks in advance,
Peter Zaborski
76 TR6 (CF58310 UO)
Calgary AB Canada
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Fox [SMTP:foxb@macom.com]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 1997 11:19 AM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: TR_Horns_Again
Fellow Scions,
After reading and contributing to the thread about TR4 horns, I
felt obligated to fix my own. The ciruit has been intermittant
since I bought Basil 8 years ago. So much so, that I wired
another switch in parallel for safety's sake. Turns out the
source of my horn problem had also been contributing to another
problem the car came with, to wit, the steering wheel would move
front-to-rear about an inch. I never correlated the steering
wheel slop with the intermittant horns, but now all is clear.
The steering column was loose at the split clamp connection to
the steering rack. After removing the column and all its bits,
the source of the slop was the bolt which is supposed to sit
firmly in the circumferential groove on the splines at the rack.
The bolt had evidently worked loose with vibration/time/etc and
decreased its diameter by 1/3. A new bolt cured both the horn
and steering column motion problems. God, I love these cars.
Imagine trying to remove the steering column from your new
(insert new car here).
Cheers,
Barry W. Fox 65 TR4A CT51681L(toot toot)
W1HFN
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