squint steering wheel!!

[Martin_172]

just re fitted my subframe etc after changing my box and noticed the steering had come out in the footwell so straightened the wheels and steeringwheel and put it back in to find its not driving straight anymore when the wheels straight, can you take the steeringwheel off and re align it to sort this?

cheers

 

[Turkish]

Nope, the splines arent uniform so has to be done on the track rods unfortunately.

 

[Martin_172]

so somewhere that does tracking could sort this out for me?

 

[Turkish]

Yup, they'll lock the wheel off dead straight then adjust it at the suspension end.

 

[Martin_172]

right cheers mate ill get it sorted tomorrow

 

[Martin_172]

sorry if this is a silly question but doesnt that mean im going to have a bigger steering lock one way than the other if they adjust the track rods because the actuall steering rack wont be centred when the wheel is?

 

[edde]

sorry if this is a silly question but doesnt that mean im going to have a bigger steering lock one way than the other if they adjust the track rods because the actuall steering rack wont be centred when the wheel is?

Yep it does.

Get the wheel back onstraight you need the wheel to be correct as there a stearing wheel angle sensor in there.

 

[Martin_172]

so i need to drop the subframe again or is there a way to remove the steering colum and get it back on straight?

 

[tidyclio]

I've had this happen to me total pain to sort but like Edde says if you get it tracked now they will just centre the wheel and adjust the track rods the steering rack will still be off with the electric steering sensor in the rack your steering will feel wrong.
You don't have to drop the subframe just take of the two bolts on the rack and it will split but mark where it is now with tip-ex and your going to have to take a guess and do it all up and take it for a drive so you might need to do it a couple of times!

 

[Martin_172]

Thank you very much mate thats just the info i was looking for ill sort it out tomorrow!

 

[tidyclio]

No probs moving it one spline will move the steering wheel about an inch in whatever direction.
Good luck!