How loose is your steering??

[nemo]

I looked at mine late yesterday and talk about hard to get at there is not much room to use any wrench and too tight for a rachet. I went to get my liquid wrench to see if that will help loosen it up but could not find it so I going to get a can today. It looks like it would be really easy if you remove the fan shroud, does anyone know if that is true?

[SilverBullet75]

I just did this adjustment this weekend... Holy cow what a difference!

No need to remove the fan shroud. I doubled-up (end to end) two combination wrenches to make a long, almost 2 ft long box wrench. Worked like a charm. I only had to turn the center screw from about 2 o'clock to 3 o'clock until it stopped, then re-tightened the lock-nut.

VERY happy with the result of this.

Hey Jim (99VC), you may want to do this on yours. I remember it had a little slop when I owned it. VERY easy adjustment. Took about 2 minutes... most of which was getting the tools out of the box.
---JIM---

[handeeman]

I've got almost no (or very little) slack in mine. Besides T4B won't cut me any.

[tom4bren]

Must be the wide bucket ... provides a stable platform.

[handeeman]

Must be the wide bucket ... provides a stable platform.

To quote a former bestus bud of mine, "I have no response to that."

[mdf]

Thanks to the forum for saving me another repair.

My steering had gotten progressively loose and looser until it was scary. As usual, I searched the form and found a solution.

This fix works very well...that is once I let PB penetrating catalyst soak in the nut for a full day and then picked up a Craftsman universal ratcheting flex wrench to lossen the nut..quite a tight space to work.