Tilt steering repair
if you want to manually lower it you just need to spin the blue wheel yourself via the bolt attatched to it
while spinning the blue gear you will see the whole steering column move slightly up or down. when you press the button that spiral thing does this for you, but you can do it yourself. it is very time consuming.
my blue worm gear is held in by a nut that isnt a regular one.
it looks like in the picture. i cant get a regular socket on there and i tried pliers for about an hour and i stripped the worm gear real good. at this point i just want the nut off and dont care about the stripping.
while spinning the blue gear you will see the whole steering column move slightly up or down. when you press the button that spiral thing does this for you, but you can do it yourself. it is very time consuming.
my blue worm gear is held in by a nut that isnt a regular one.
it looks like in the picture. i cant get a regular socket on there and i tried pliers for about an hour and i stripped the worm gear real good. at this point i just want the nut off and dont care about the stripping.
Mine never had a nut on it and i thought this thing in the picture was the nut, but that was wrong. the thing in my oh so great picture is what the worm gear sits on, you must use the paper clip method to pry it out off of this gear.
after about 10 minutes of fighting the worm gear was out.
Seeing as I didn't have a nut and was too lazy to go to the store...
I used 2 washers behind and 2 washers in front and held them in place while i put the lid on. the pressure against the lid and the pressure against the back keeps the worm gear perfectly lined up.
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Wonderful Fix
Jim Walker just repaired my instrument cluster boards on my 93 LS-400 - I reinstalled and they worked great so imagine my distress when the tilt went when I started up for the first time. The wheel would only grind and not go down - worked fine in every other direction. Maybe I stressed it while fiddling with the dash repair. I was really upset and could only see $1,000 repair right after I was so proud of the cluster repair.
Then I went to this Forum thread and found the gear wheel fix - I used some washers from my shop and it works great. took about 45 minutes total.
THANK YOU
Larry
Then I went to this Forum thread and found the gear wheel fix - I used some washers from my shop and it works great. took about 45 minutes total.
THANK YOU
Larry
