I had the original steering wheel reconditioned and am trying to put on the car. When I removed the 22 mm bolt on the aftermarket wheel and yanked it off, a spring came off as well behind the wheel.
I cannot for the life of me figure out where the spring is supposed to go. any help would be appreciated.
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Appreciate the input and saw the same diagram on the parts manual but it dosent add up. I asked my father the same about the aftermarket Lecarra wheel and he didnt remember it coming with another spring…but he could be wrong.
To make things more confusing pulling out the canceller shows a tooth/key that fits into a slot in the part directly behing the canceller so no way the spring fits between. Please see pics.
connecting the factory wheel right to the canceller is a flush fit with the covers. But this means i need to leave the spring and spacer out….
The spring doesn't look like it would compress enough to get the splines of the wheel on, are you sure it didn't come out of the center of the adapter under the nut?
Not sure if it helps, but
Verified that the shaft is all the way up towards the driver
Washer first
The spring goes on the shaft second then the red turn signal canceler with the with the square that fits into the notch of the steering wheel.
when I did to my power steering conversion, I had to cut the spring shorter!
Not sure honestly, I had to yank the wheel so hard that when it released it flew at me so it very well could have been.
Been quite a frustrating day. I cannot get the stock steering wheel on even without the spring or that spacer…..
@74gts posted:Not sure honestly, I had to yank the wheel so hard that when it released it flew at me so it very well could have been.
Been quite a frustrating day. I cannot get the stock steering wheel on even without the spring or that spacer…..
Put the steering wheel on with the nut and see if you can pull on it…
I don’t have my column here otherwise I would measure it and see how much it should stick out
Turned out my steering shaft need to be pulled forward to have enough room to get the wheel on.
Probably would’ve been enough room to compress the spring as well….just not sure where it would go….
Here’s a picture of mine I took out..
that should give you an idea how much should stick out
super appreciative of this group and the always helpful people and advice!
problem solved. First issue was my shaft had dropped. pulling it up gave me another 3” or so. Then I could tell that my father had put things back incorrectly. I followed the order above with the shaft all the way out and had plenty of room to get the the factory GTS wheel back on.
Thanks all
It may be time to rebuild the column with a new upper and lower bushing.
