[V8] Steering Rack Centering, and other stuff

[Scott Simmons]

I'm pretty sure that's why the Airbag light is on: someone was behind 
the wheel and broke the clock spring. 

On the road... 11 to 11:15 is straight.  Letting go of the wheel let's 
the wheel track back to about 11:30, and the vehicle pulls to the right 
a bit.  Moving wheel to 12 pulls to the right even more.  I had other 
things to do on the car today (see below) so I'll pull the wheel off 
another day.

Currently trying to figure out if my heater valve is sticking open or 
not.  Heat worked great in the winter but now that it's a good 95 out, 
I'd like some cool air.  A/C clutch engages and stays engaged, only the 
09 error on the HVAC system, but warm air comes out of the vents.  I 
hooked up a hand vacuum pump to the heater valve and played with 
positive and negative pressure until I was fairly certain the valve was 
working correctly.  I'll be getting a variable orifice tube and new 
accum next week as the car goes into the shop for R12 substitute and 
pressure checks.  If the wrench says pressures are good, and air is 
still warm, then I'll go back and pinch off a heater hose to be 100% 
sure.  I'd do that today.. but.. well, they don't make those heater 
hoses easy to get to.

~Scott S.

Jason Wilkerson wrote:

>If it were my car, and the car tracked strait and the tires weren't
>wearing I would move the steering wheel.  I know that you need to be
>careful with the airbag 'spiral spring', it's expensive and easily
>breakable.  Mine was broken in both cars so I never cared what I did, but
>I do know that you can break it when you remove the wheel if you aren't
>careful.  In fact I think you mentioned that your Airbag light was on - it
>could be because of this 'spiral spring' being broken, among other things.
> Good luck,
>                Jason  
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