93 euro tilt steering broken

[Adasm]

I was in a near accident last week and I was holding onto the top of my steering wheel when I slammed on my breaks. No one was hurt except for my tilt steering. Now, I can move the steering wheel freely between it's positions without the lever at the side of the column. I want to fasten the thing in place for now or pull the steering wheel and fix it from inside somehow. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this? Is the steering wheel hard to pull and put back on?

[john51md]

Originally Posted by Adasm

I was in a near accident last week and I was holding onto the top of my steering wheel when I slammed on my breaks. No one was hurt except for my tilt steering. Now, I can move the steering wheel freely between it's positions without the lever at the side of the column. I want to fasten the thing in place for now or pull the steering wheel and fix it from inside somehow. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this? Is the steering wheel hard to pull and put back on?

there is a flat thick metal piece on the underside the coloum hidden by the plastic cover just below the steering wheel. The tilt lever pulls a "catch" piece over the teeth in the thick metal part to adjust the tilt, there is a steel pin in there that will with get loose, slide out of where its sposed to be, and your tilt wont catch, all this stuff is located where the 'gap' is opening up close to bottom/back of steering wheel if you get under and look when you push wheel up.
Its possible that pin has slid out, or you actually broke one of the "teeth" on it. Only way is to dig into it and see, but go buy/rent a steering wheel puller to get the wheel off.
Rest is just simple hand tools.
I had one that these parts broke in, and its darn near impossibe to find anyway to lock wheel solid, just due to design of the parts. I had to get a junk yard coloum. And even at that, the junk yard one later had the pin walk out and make the wheel not lock, but was just a matter of pushing pin back in and making sure it didnt slide back out again, i did that by vice gripping the end of the pin till i had flattened the end a bit, so it would be tight in its hole.
I will tell ya though, these colums, if you dismantle the whole thing on top end, are a pain to work on, expecially in the bearing area, so if you take parts out, make SURE you line the all up in order of removal so they can be put back in right, very easy to mix a few washers and stuff up.

[Adasm]

thanx for the info man