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Steering Noise

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:01 pm
by vwlover77
It's cold here today (20 deg F) and I drove my Bus! When turning the steering wheel to full lock while rolling very slowly (pulling into a parking space), something in the steering made a rapid click-click-click-click noise.

I've never heard this at "normal" temperatures.

Any idea what this is, and if it's anything to be worried about?

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:52 pm
by vdubyah73
Does it click with the turning of the steering wheel or with the turning of the tires?

Bill

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:13 pm
by vwlover77
Turning of the steering wheel. It sounded like something "ratcheting".

Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:42 pm
by Amskeptic
vwlover77 wrote:Turning of the steering wheel. It sounded like something "ratcheting".
My bus does that too. I think it might be an amplified chatter inside of the ball joint of the drag link. If not that, I am mystified.
Colin