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Re: [Healeys] Annoying noise from steering column

To: bspidell@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Annoying noise from steering column
From: Douglas W Flagg <dwflagg@juno.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:49:17 -0500
Peter,

There is also an "inti-rattle" cerated "shim that fits on the stator
tube. This is usually lost and not replaced. 

Doug

> Peter,
> 
> This is a SWAG ("Scientific Wild-Assed Guess"), but we're rebuilding 
> our 
> 100's steering and noticed a couple parts ( 
>
http://www.mossmotors.com/Shop/SearchResults.aspx?SearchText=262-320&WebC
atalogID=0 
> 
> ) which might apply.  These are rubber rings--probably square-cut 
> O-rings--which are sometimes described as 'anti-rattle' and appear 
> to be 
> used to keep the steering shaft from contacting the steering sleeve. 
>  I 
> would imagine this noise would be most noticeable at idle and slow 
> speed.  Ours were missing but there are a couple of rubbery smears 
> on 
> the shaft where they might have been 50 or so years ago.
> 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> Peter Ehn wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > This summer, after rebuilding my entire engine and getting it 
> tight and smooth
> > and quiet, I now have a new issue to deal with (perhaps because I 
> haven't
> > heard it earlier):
> >
> > At idleing speed, I have a very annoying noise coming from my 
> steering column.
> > It sort of goes "cloink-cloink-cloink" in beat with the engine 
> vibrations.
> > This bugs me, because the car otherwise "ticks like a clock". At 
> higher revs
> > it is not audible. If I, e.g. when at a stop, hear this noise, and 
> slightly
> > put pressure on the steering wheel (right or left) it seizes. At 
> idle again,
> > standing at the engine bay, I can actually feel and hear 
> vibrations approx.
> > 40-50 cm in front of the firewall.
> > Is it the stator tube? Or ? Should I dismantle the whole steering 
> column an
> > steering gear? Alot of work for a little noise, but who said we're 
> not crazy?
> >
> > Appreciate any ideas or experience of something like this.
> >
> > Brgds, Peter Ehn
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > Peter Ehn, 1967 BJ8-42208
> > Eloppevdgen 36
> > 168 56 Bromma, Sweden
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> > email: peter.ehn@it-arkitekterna.se
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