Steering wheel ribbon cable fitment

[sonnylad]

Any good pointers from those that have done this job in the past, also when removing the steering whell hub do i also need to undo the 4 smaller screws around the main bolt.

[pmessling]

The steering wheel boss comes in two parts.

Undoing the centre bolt will remove both parts as one.

[Penelope Stopit]

There's plenty of information here https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

and here https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Byker28i]

Don't try and do it in the car. It's much easier to remove the whole steering column. Take out the adjustment lever bolt, making careful note of how the plastic bits fit. Disconnect the two ribbon cables from the rear of the column and then theres two plugs coming down from the dash.

Then you can take the whole lot out and work on it on the dining room table...

[sonnylad]

Byker28i said:

Don't try and do it in the car. It's much easier to remove the whole steering column.

Wouldn't the car keeping the steering column in place not help with having one less thing moving about.

[Byker28i]

Well, you decide. I was chasing a problem with the buttons and couldn't work out where it was in the chain as it was intermittent.
Pics and description here when I did mine. last pages.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

My cable had snapped right at the plug on the central hub, it went through a 90 degree bend there, so was sometimes making. Rather than pay the £80+ price for a new one I cut off the broken end, opened the plug up and soldered it back on. Then used double sided tape to stick the cable to the initial bit of the central hub to relieve the strain.

Do use a sharpie etc to mark around which way all the ribbon cables go if you remove any of them.

[GT6k]

+1 for sticky tape to hold it in place properly. When mine failed, it had worn through close to the plug because it had moved off centre and was occasionally shorting to ground so i made sure that this time it was properly located so that it wouldn't wear through by sticking it in place. This was years ago when they were cheap but i kept the old one anyway because it would be very easy to shorten the cable a couple of cms and re do the plug.

[M3cerbera]

Think I’ll be having to fix mine when I get round to it... the little one decided to go for a drive while I was working on the car in the garage with a lot of turning in the one way while the the rack is disconnected....good job I love her lol

[Byker28i]

There is a test mode to help you align the indicators if that is out