steering wheel play

[flaatr@yahoo.com (Euroroc II)]

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


At 11:55 AM 9/4/02 -0400, you wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:05:52 -0700 (PDT)
>  Robbie Cotner <robw_z@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>I admit I may have been a little hard on the column when I pounded the 
>>adapter on :(
>
>THAT was completely unnecessary.  There is no need to remove anything but 
>the steering wheel.  Put the adapter on and use the nut to push it on far 
>enough to get the steering wheel on.  Then put the steering wheel on and 
>use the nut to finish pressing everything into place.  Brace the steering 
>wheel with a 2x4 going from one spoke to the floor of the car to keep it 
>from turning.
>
>I guess all that is moot now, though.
>
>There is a bracket that fastens the steering column to the bottom of the 
>dash.  Pull the cover off under the dash and check it.  It sounds like its 
>either loose or bent out of shape.  You should also check the rack 
>assembly to see if you bent those brackets as well (engine compartment, 
>bottom of firewall).
>
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