[Main C900 Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Prev by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos Re: Notnoel, please elaborate on "calibrating clockspring" Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by SWEDECAR [Email] (#112) [Profile/Gallery] (more from SWEDECAR) on Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:02:35 In Reply to: Notnoel, please elaborate on "calibrating clockspring", DET17 [Profile/Gallery] , Thu, 9 Jan 2014 07:27:55 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

It might already be too late in your case if you have ripped the clock spring band and that the horn wires are contacting ground somewhere.

If the clock spring cassette HAS NOT been allowed to pop apart allowing the whole clock spring tape to unravel like a wild snake, it is only a a matter of centering the locator peg again.

Let's see, I did one last week.
The wires goes through the steering wheel on top and locator peg is at the bottom.

Before you put the steering wheel back on, you grab the peg and carefully rotate the clock spring one way until you start to feel resistance (usually 2 turns and a tad). Then you rotate it back to center and go the other way until you start to feel resistance (2 turns and a tad) and then back to center again and mount the steering wheel.

If you get 3 turns one way and 1 turn the other, then you are off center and need to move one corresponding turn until you have 2 turn to left and 2 turns to right and the peg at the bottom.

That's the calibration.

But you have another problem going on with horn blaring and I can't say what that is.

And if the clock spring case has been allowed to pop apart, you have a WHOLE different set of problems to deal with trying to center the clock spring again.

Anders

SWEDECAR

• a job best left to the pros? loose steering column!, robert hakalski, Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:11:29
  • Re: a job best left to the pros? loose steering column!, cgwiz , Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:40:32
    • Re: a job best left to the pros? loose steering column!, robert hakalski, Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:51:06
      • Important! Do not turn the ignition on, Notnoel , Tue, 7 Jan 2014 11:24:01
        • Re: Important! Do not turn the ignition on, Roger D , Tue, 7 Jan 2014 12:19:18
          • Yeah, what roger said --, Notnoel , Tue, 7 Jan 2014 18:52:48
            • Notnoel, please elaborate on "calibrating clockspring", DET17 , Thu, 9 Jan 2014 07:27:55
              • Re: Notnoel, please elaborate on "calibrating clockspring", SWEDECAR , Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:02:35 <-- Viewing This Message
                • Re: Notnoel, please elaborate on "calibrating clockspring", DET17 , Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:19:51
                  • Anders covered the issue thoroughly (as ususal), Notnoel , Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:01:19
                    • I removed both horn buttons to be sure, DET17 , Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:30:12

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