steering wheel play

[flaatr@yahoo.com (Euroroc II)]

If you have ETKA look at the 1990 Corrado, for example, MG 4, SG 19, 
Illustration 104-00. The spring 823 419 667 is Item 13 called out as a 
pressure spring.

The sleeve, 171 419 549, I am talking about can be found on, for example, 
an 87 Scirocco MG 4, SG 19, Illustration 104-00. It is item 13... the 
spring is shown here but it doe not come up as valid since it was never 
really used on the Scirocco.

-Raffi


At 04:30 PM 9/4/02 -0400, John Erickson wrote:
>Hmm.  I removed my Scirocco steering wheel for the first time in its life 
>and never removed any sort of a plastic spacer.  I didn't notice one or 
>have reason to remove any additional parts when I removed the wheel.  I'm 
>assuming mine is still there.  I've had my steering wheel off several 
>times (instrument clusters, dash replacement and finally steering wheel 
>replacement).  I do not have any additional play as the result of 
>switching to a Corrado steering wheel and OEM spacer.  I've had two 
>different Corrado steering wheels on the car as well.  I originally put on 
>a NA wheel and now have a Euro wheel.  I will check ETKA when I get home 
>to see if Corrados use a spring or a spacer on the steering column.
>
>John
>Long Beach
>
>On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 13:01:54 -0700
>  Euroroc II <flaatr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Not exactly true... The original steering column has a plastic spacer 
>>sleeve that slips on and is sandwiched between the wheel and the bearing 
>>in the steering column. If you install the get the adapter to install the 
>>Corrado wheel you also should get, or have, a spring... That is, the 
>>plastic sleeve goes away and you put, in it's place, a spring between the 
>>steering column bearing and the adapter.
>>
>>I did not originally install the spring myself because I did not know 
>>about it and I too noticed a bit of play in the wheel. After a few visit 
>>to the local junk yards I noticed that many Jetta's and Golf's that had 
>>this adapter had a spring under them... I bought one and installed it, 
>>problem solved.
>>
>>-Raffi
>
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