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tvalley641
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A while back I did a post concerning this problem in my 15k C4. I had many good suggestions but I played a hunch and went after the steering shaft coupling this past weekend. This is the first head-hunt I've tackled on the 4 mo. old car.
The steering shaft is basically in three pieces. The main center shaft has a universal assy on each end. The end closest to rack (it slips over the rack input shaft and is bolted on), sandwiches a rubber/fabric insulator (using 2 bolts and nuts) between itself and the universal on the other side of the insulator. By close observation, I could see a slight, almost imperceptible, movement each time I loaded up the steering wheel to the point where the pop/snap occurred. I removed the shaft (not bad; about 45 min.; would have taken much less if I had known how to get the shaft/rack boot off. Remove the belt pulley dumbo! It takes about 2 minutes and is not nearly as hard to replace as the whole darned A/C compressor; head-slap!!!!), placed the unit in a vice, applied some torque to one end, and low-and-behold I duplicated the noise. A few ft-lbs on each nut solved that problem.
I swear, that is a lousy, niggling little problem to occur on a low-mileage vette. I could understand on a Yugo or something, but vette? Come on!!!!!!
Now for that rear end slop....... honey, here I come. You can run but you can not hide.
Ted Valley
The steering shaft is basically in three pieces. The main center shaft has a universal assy on each end. The end closest to rack (it slips over the rack input shaft and is bolted on), sandwiches a rubber/fabric insulator (using 2 bolts and nuts) between itself and the universal on the other side of the insulator. By close observation, I could see a slight, almost imperceptible, movement each time I loaded up the steering wheel to the point where the pop/snap occurred. I removed the shaft (not bad; about 45 min.; would have taken much less if I had known how to get the shaft/rack boot off. Remove the belt pulley dumbo! It takes about 2 minutes and is not nearly as hard to replace as the whole darned A/C compressor; head-slap!!!!), placed the unit in a vice, applied some torque to one end, and low-and-behold I duplicated the noise. A few ft-lbs on each nut solved that problem.
I swear, that is a lousy, niggling little problem to occur on a low-mileage vette. I could understand on a Yugo or something, but vette? Come on!!!!!!
Now for that rear end slop....... honey, here I come. You can run but you can not hide.
Ted Valley
