Steering Lock

[Guest Daren.F]

Last night whilst out for a blast, I took a Left hand turn, Quite fast, And the steering lock engaged half way round the turn.

I managed to free it before the ditch, but I dont know why it happened and i'm not to keen on it happening again.

I intend stripping it tonight and will report back

Has anyone else had this fault?

( 2b, Mountney wheel and boss)

[Guest Daren.F]

Having stripped the steering I found nothing amiss !

I can only assume the pin on the steering lock drops down a fraction under cornering G forces,

I have filed a bit off it, If I turn up at newark you'll know it worked.

[Longboarder]

I would suggest you take the locking arm out and bin it. The thought of a possible repeat lockup is just too much. You can always fit a crooklock or something.

 

Nigel

[Guest stevie b]

Darren

 

I had a similar problem on an Escort; it was a worn ignition switch.

 

Also I trouble with steering lock not working, It was caused by the steering wheel boss. I filed it and it works well after making sure that relative spacings were correct .

 

Steve

[Guest 2BBoulton]

I thought that the plastic lugs on the boss were to cancel the indicater after completing a turn, or at least thats what they did on my Mini (if I remember correctly)

Bruce

[Guest Mr Pid]

Im taking my steering lock off post SVA, i dont fancy this happenning at all!!!

 

I have enough problems correcting sideways action as it is, i dont fancy trying it when the steering wheel doesnt want to play along!

 

Stu

[Guest michael]

this may help the sva requires a anti theft device if the steering lock dont work you will need somthing else i fitted a battery cut off switch so the sva man said thats ok.....reg mike