28-01-2018, 04:28 PM
(28-01-2018, 01:56 PM)Christopher Wrote: Hello Austin Seven Friends
It is not clear from your email which photo is the old and which the new wheel. The first photo has a mild steel device in it which cancels the traffic actor switch when the wheel is turned back from lock to central position. The second photo lacks this device, which can be left out, but then there will be no self cancel function and you will have to remember to do this on each occasion. The wheel should be fitted with the steel item at the 12 o'clock position when the front wheels are straight ahead. As has been said the stator tube position is so that the wheel boss does not touch the under side of the horn/indicator wheel centre. The pinch bolt at the bottom of the steering column outer keeps the stator tube in position, both radially and up and down.
The felt strip, which is fitted in a spiral as the stator tube is slide into the column, has two functions. It prevents the stator tube rattling against the inside of the column and it helps prevent excess lubricant being deposited from the steering box into the drivers trouser lap. Available I think from the usual suspects, it can also be fashioned from a suitable thickness felt from the fabric department of the household.
hope this helped!
This is my first post to this forum. I hope somebody will be able to help!
I replaced the steering wheel of my Ruby ARR with a recoated one. The inner part of the original (old) steering wheel and the new steering wheel does not look exactly the same (see attached photos)
When I reinserted the trafficator switch/inner control column through the new steering wheel into the steering column I could not achieve the gap anymore between the trafficator switch and the steering wheel, thus the trafficator switch moves with the steering wheel. First, I thought that the reason was the new steering wheel which does not look exactly the same inside as the old steering wheel. Then I inserted the inner control column into the old steering wheel outside of the car but could not see out any difference, so the solution must be somewhere between inner control column and the steering column, but where