Clunk from Steering Coupe Q 86

[Kneale Brownson]

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Did you look at where the rack mounts on either end?  I seem to remember
someone noticing a while back that 4k cars (and, I assume, coupes too) were
showing some cracks in the sheetmetal around the mounting points for the
rack.  One side was worse than the other, I think.


At 07:49 PM 01/08/2002 +0000, Iain Atkinson wrote:

>Hi Listers
>
>i seem to have a clunk from the steering on the above audi, i can move the
>steering wheel say 1/4 of an inch either way and can feel and hear this
>clunk. I have checked that the steering column bearing is ok ( which it is)
>and also taken a look at the bolts that hold the steering column onto the
>rack, also ok.
>
>Whilst i had my head by the pedals i moved the wheel a little with my hand
>on the steering column  and could feel the clunk even better. Is this a rack
>that's gonna need replacing or maybe tierods???? All the other bushes on the
>suspension are new apart from the ball joints which are fine.
>
>
>TIA
>
>Iain
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