[T2] Steering - 73 bus

[T2] Steering - 73 bus

Chris Dreike cdreike at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 18:45:24 PDT 2020


  Whoever is looking at this for you is missing something. I agree that you
need to crawl under the bus yourself and have someone turn the wheel back
and forth for you.
Maybe someone forgot to tighten the drop arm onto the gearbox. but multiple
times?

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 2:26 PM Erik Burtis <ewdb92 at gmail.com> wrote:

> A lot of work with frustrating results!  If you have not, I would crawl
> under the bus while someone turns the steering wheel.  You should be able
> to track the loss of movement because all the compents should starting turn
> with the steering wheel.  Whatever doesn't turn or is delayed in turning is
> the problem.  That's how I tracked my problems to the drag link.  The only
> other thing I can think of is fiddling with the adjustment screw on the
> steering box.
>
> Erik
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 2:58 PM Dave Gillingham <dave at coronado-realty.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Listees:
> >
> > I am stumped!  I think every component in the front end of my bus is new
> > but i still have about 4” of play in the steering wheel, and the bus
> > wanders on the road.
> >
> > I have replaced the steering box (3x), the drag link, the center pin, the
> > tie rods, the steering damper, and the PO (my minister) said the ball
> > joints were replaced not too long ago.
> >
> > 1) Any ideas?, or
> > 2) A recommendation for a steering shop that might have better luck
> fixing
> > it than I have?
> >
> > Dave
> > --
> >
> > Dave Gillingham, Owner/Broker
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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