Loose Tilt-Wheel?
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Loose Tilt-Wheel? My steering wheel seems to have a lot of up/down play between the different settings of the tiltwheel feature. I dont remember it being like this before... but its been going on for a while, so I cant really remember it not doing it either!
So when traveling on the freeway for instance, or other bumpy road, the wheel will bounce up and down probably a good inch or so. If sitting still, I can just reach out and pull the wheel down an inch or so, and itll spring back up when I let it go. It causes the turn signal stalk to shake like crazy and make all sorts of annoying noises. If I push up on the wheel while im holding it, to prevent it from moving, the vibes and noise stop. Is it just a spring that holds the wheel in place in each of the tilt settings? Anyone else experiencing this? Any possible remedies?
So when traveling on the freeway for instance, or other bumpy road, the wheel will bounce up and down probably a good inch or so. If sitting still, I can just reach out and pull the wheel down an inch or so, and itll spring back up when I let it go. It causes the turn signal stalk to shake like crazy and make all sorts of annoying noises. If I push up on the wheel while im holding it, to prevent it from moving, the vibes and noise stop. Is it just a spring that holds the wheel in place in each of the tilt settings? Anyone else experiencing this? Any possible remedies?
Sounds like a prob I had w/my 91 GMC Jimmy but it had almost 230K miles on it. It just got progressively worse so I was prepared to replace some bushings that I got from dealer but when I took it apart I could see that there were three cap screws that held tilt mechanism to steering shaft. They were very loose, almost ready to fall out!! Tightened those w/out removing any tilt stuff and took back bushings.
Thats all I have on this one. Sounds like you're gonna have to get in there and see or let the stealership do it.
Good luck!
Thats all I have on this one. Sounds like you're gonna have to get in there and see or let the stealership do it.
Good luck!
