steering

[Ed Kellock]

I believe it is exactly the same idea as what you mention with the Benz.
There is a small gearbox where the steering column connects to the rack and
on it, there is a 10mm bolt sticking out of the middle of a flat area that
is about 2 inches square (-ish?), more or less.  If you look down along the
driver side of the pentosin canister, you will see it down there.  

On my parents' 73 280 Benz, the bolt had a locknut... on my Avant it is just
the bolt and I tightened it, little by little, until I no longer had a clunk
when I turned the steering wheel back and forth (about 30 degrees range).
Engine off.  Bentley says to do this with a helper, but I just did it in
very small increments.  Then it says to give it another 1/8th of a turn and
test drive to make sure the steering will still self-center.

Ed
 


-----Original Message-----
From: 200q20v-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:200q20v-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of feelstranger
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 7:14 AM
To: Ed Kellock; 200q20v at audifans.com
Subject: Re: steering


investigate adjusting the steering gear.  Looked it up in Bentley and 10 
minutes later,
wow.  I guess after almost a quarter of a million miles, stuff wears.
Imagine.

Ed, can you elaborate on that?  I've adjusted the play in the steering box 
on my Benz, but never thought the Audi might have something similar?


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ed Kellock
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 9:51 PM
To: 200q20v at audifans.com ; 'q - V8'
Subject: steering

Spent the afternoon/evening working on the 91 Avant's loose steering.  Was
all ready to dig into the loose tie rod and and decided to investigate
adjusting the steering gear.  Looked it up in Bentley and 10 minutes later,
wow.  I guess after almost a quarter of a million miles, stuff wears.
Imagine.

On to the main project.  The driver's side inner tie rod bushing has been
loose and I haven't wanted to buy a whole tie rod because of it.  It finally
occurred to me a couple weeks ago that I have a parts car and it has the
same bushing, though in a V8 tie rod instead.  So I pulled the tie rod and
pushed out the bushing then did the same with the Avant.  That bushing was
hard and cracked, but otherwise intact.  Did the swap'a'roo and reinstalled
both tie rods and I have a no cost repair which, sadly, is a valuable thing
these days.

Can't wait to drive the Avant tomorrow.  I love how these little things
renew my exuberance in a car that I've owned for several years.

Ed


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