Steering wheel position
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Drifting
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Steering wheel position
On my 80 the steering wheel is sitting in the wrong position when the wheels are pointing straight. Can I take a puller and remove the wheel and put it back on straight or does the shaft have a keyway preventing this?
Kona
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From: In Dreams There Is Truth Ohio
Originally Posted by kona
On my 80 the steering wheel is sitting in the wrong position when the wheels are pointing straight. Can I take a puller and remove the wheel and put it back on straight or does the shaft have a keyway preventing this?
Kona
Kona
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St. Jude Donor '07
A good alignment shop can do it with the tie rods. As long as the steering box is properly centered, you can just pull the steering wheel and re-install. Mine's upside down right now... 
Edit: point taken about the cancelling cam.
Edit: point taken about the cancelling cam.
Last edited by I'm Batman; Feb 7, 2006 at 05:12 AM.
Le Mans Master
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Wait just a minute...not so fast....lol. In order for the turn signal cancelling cam to work correctly, the steering wheel hub must be indexed correctly to the shaft. Look for a scribe line on each part. These are factory markings. Once these are lined up, then you can have the alignment shop center the wheels at the tie rods... 
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Originally Posted by big_G
Wait just a minute...not so fast....lol. In order for the turn signal cancelling cam to work correctly, the steering wheel hub must be indexed correctly to the shaft. Look for a scribe line on each part. These are factory markings. Once these are lined up, then you can have the alignment shop center the wheels at the tie rods...
GENE
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Originally Posted by mrvette
BigG is totally correct and anything else is BS of the lowest order....
GENE
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Wouldnt the answer be with how much of an offset you are talking about? If it is off only a little, I think the tie rod adjustment would work. If you are talking about 1/4 to 1/2 out of orientation, then there is another adjustment to be made somewhere.
kdf
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Here is a link to a paper on steering wheel centering.
http://jimshea.corvettefaq.com/wp-co...mCentering.doc
Don't try and use the links in the paper for the tie rod information. They go to the old Corvettefaq.com websight. Here are two other links to the new websight.
http://jimshea.corvettefaq.com/wp-co...-Rev21JA06.doc
http://jimshea.corvettefaq.com/wp-co...ised14FE04.doc
Jim
http://jimshea.corvettefaq.com/wp-co...mCentering.doc
Don't try and use the links in the paper for the tie rod information. They go to the old Corvettefaq.com websight. Here are two other links to the new websight.
http://jimshea.corvettefaq.com/wp-co...-Rev21JA06.doc
http://jimshea.corvettefaq.com/wp-co...ised14FE04.doc
Jim
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Originally Posted by kona
Damn I thought I was going to get off easy.
Kona
Kona
Kona, pay attention to Jim's papers there, he the guru, and Stickshift is also correct , good point there....
GENE
