Thread: Indicator Cancelling -- steering wheel alignment

Coz ur steering wheel is out of alignment. I would like to suggest u turn ur wheels straight ahead. Remove the drop arm again and straighten ur steering wheel up. It probably turned when u were playing around with it. Now refit the drop arm. Tie the wheel to the straight ahead position to do this or get someone to hold it there. If u have an air bag, DONT spin the wheel as u will break the clockspring coil. That is the only reason ur wheel is out of alignment. That is also why the indicators arent cancelling correctly.

Cheers Rod

Only slightly off, cant you just pop the steering wheel off and refit it straight?

Originally Posted by manic

Only slightly off, cant you just pop the steering wheel off and refit it straight?

Steering box wont be in the middle

I remember the drop arm having a locating spline. If a straight swap, box should still be near centered when wheels straight. Thats if it was set up properly to begin with.

If the drop arm is pointing straight ahead with the wheels straight I would be tempted to just clock the steering wheel a fraction and locate the cancel ring whilst the wheel is off.

Not always easy to get the wheel off though, you might need a puller!

Originally Posted by 67hardtop

I would like to suggest u turn ur wheels straight ahead. Remove the drop arm again and straighten ur steering wheel up. It probably turned when u were playing around with it. Now refit the drop arm.

The arm is splined such that it only fits in one orientation, removing it won't achieve anything. The only cause of the indicator symptoms is if the cancelling ring was never seated correctly into the tabs on the wheel.

Adjust the tie rod until you have the same number of turns from (wheels) straight ahead to either lock. Then take the steering wheel off, make sure the blue cancelling ring is oriented so the slots are vertical (from memory, it will be obvious - check the orientation of the tabs on the wheel) then replace the wheel so that it is straight.

Edit: The drop arm won't be straight ahead, it points slightly to the driver's side.

The thing is my indicators are working properly and cancelling like this. They never did before I swapped.

Also the drop arm had 4 locating splines so it won't go on slightly wrong. It will go on a lot wrong but then it would be able to steer both ways.

Looks like I need to pull the steering wheel to see what's going on with the cancelling ring.

Thanks Dervish. I replied just before I read your response. That sounds like a good plan.

On the blue ring, there is a small pointer sticking out at 90 degrees to the slots. That needs to be pointing to the left of the vehicle, i.e. the indicator stalk..