Squeaky steering wheel on Rangie

**VladTepes** · 15th November 2005, 12:30 PM

My Rangie has developed a squaeky/screechy steering wheel when turning. It''s not the pump or anything but totally sounds like the wheel itself (or the boss or the column or somehting).

Steering itself is fine and the sound occurs as turning the wheel, not when still on full lock or anything like that.

Anyone come across this and more importantly can anyone suggest a fix ?

**matbor** · 15th November 2005, 03:08 PM

Bit of grease or wd-40 on all the universals I believe usually fixes that problem.

Matt.

**seqfisho** · 15th November 2005, 04:48 PM

Might be the contacts for the horn etc, is yours wheel mounted or stalk?

**abaddonxi** · 15th November 2005, 06:31 PM

Mice?

Schroedinger's cat?

**101RRS** · 15th November 2005, 08:05 PM

If you had a Disco 1 I would say it was the rubber seal on the firewall where the steering shaft passes from the cabin to the engine bay. The rubber seal is a tight fit around the shaft and as it ages or gets cold it slightly binds on the shaft, just enough to cause an annoying squeaking (more like a banshee) sound that sounds as if it is coming out the steering wheel boss. Getting under the dash near the pedals and prising the rubber seal away from the shaft and giving it a squirt with some sort of lubricant fixes it.

How do I know - mine has been annoyed me for about 4 years and I finally fixed it on Sunday.

I assume the steering shaft through the firewall arrangement on your rangie is basically the same as the disco.

Cheers

Gazzz

**DEFENDERZOOK** · 16th November 2005, 11:57 AM

<span style="color:blue">they used to also rub on the cowling and make noise.....

but most times it was the instrument pod rubbing on the dash that used to make noise as you turned the wheel.....</span>

seashells · 16th November 2005, 12:41 PM

Gazza

I too have had that problem on my 94 update hybrid disco it certainly
took a lot of time to find out it was the rubber as you described, once fixed it hasn't happened again, but have since had a noise when turning the wheel but it turned out to be a broken tape in the rotary coupler.

Seashells

**Captain_Rightfoot** · 16th November 2005, 12:55 PM

My defender does this [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

**gruntfuttock** · 16th November 2005, 03:33 PM

I do not know what it could be.

Does it squeak when you take the steering wheel off [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

**awabbit6** · 17th June 2010, 04:01 PM

Originally Posted by garrycol

If you had a Disco 1 I would say it was the rubber seal on the firewall where the steering shaft passes from the cabin to the engine bay. The rubber seal is a tight fit around the shaft and as it ages or gets cold it slightly binds on the shaft, just enough to cause an annoying squeaking (more like a banshee) sound that sounds as if it is coming out the steering wheel boss. Getting under the dash near the pedals and prising the rubber seal away from the shaft and giving it a squirt with some sort of lubricant fixes it.

How do I know - mine has been annoyed me for about 4 years and I finally fixed it on Sunday.

I assume the steering shaft through the firewall arrangement on your rangie is basically the same as the disco.

Cheers

Gazzz

Thanks!! You saved me from pulling the steering wheel of my D2 to find a squeal that developed after a trip away last weekend. I suspected the rotary coupling until I reading this. A small dob of rubber grease on the rubber boot and the squeal is gone! Job done in a couple of minutes.

I love this forum for tips like this! (Even 5 year old tips!)

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