Paul Connor
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New to this forum, and just wanted to ask for help and give advice too;
My new baby is a beautiful 89 3.2 SC. Other day noticed a sudden and alarming movement in steering wheel (up,down,sideways) - thought centre nut loose, but wasn't. Took to Autofarm, who removed wheel and saw problem immediately. The race bearing has a thin plastic washer inside, around the steering column. This had shredded - not uncommon, apparently and not immediately dangerous (although, as I say, rather un-nerving!). The "proper" way to deal with this is to remove whole assembly and renew bearing. Sheer bolts, the lot. 8 hours labour. Autofarm have found a way to replace the plastic washer with a metal sheath, tapped in without removing anything. Result: perfect and just 30mins labour!
Now to the problem: fresh air fan behing dash (activated only by aircon) squeaks. Damm annoying. Bought a new Bosch motor and replaced old one. Result: still sqeaks! Any ideas? (ps problem worse on 1st aircon speed setting and when bouncing about a bit - smooth and straight on setting 2 and fan is quiet'ish).
Migration info. Legacy thread was 17860
My new baby is a beautiful 89 3.2 SC. Other day noticed a sudden and alarming movement in steering wheel (up,down,sideways) - thought centre nut loose, but wasn't. Took to Autofarm, who removed wheel and saw problem immediately. The race bearing has a thin plastic washer inside, around the steering column. This had shredded - not uncommon, apparently and not immediately dangerous (although, as I say, rather un-nerving!). The "proper" way to deal with this is to remove whole assembly and renew bearing. Sheer bolts, the lot. 8 hours labour. Autofarm have found a way to replace the plastic washer with a metal sheath, tapped in without removing anything. Result: perfect and just 30mins labour!
Now to the problem: fresh air fan behing dash (activated only by aircon) squeaks. Damm annoying. Bought a new Bosch motor and replaced old one. Result: still sqeaks! Any ideas? (ps problem worse on 1st aircon speed setting and when bouncing about a bit - smooth and straight on setting 2 and fan is quiet'ish).
Migration info. Legacy thread was 17860