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Originally Posted by Stretch
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Gotcha. I think I may have missed it when I checked earlier.
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...as for the adjustment.
I found it tricky on both the W123 steering box and the W201 steering box to adjust.
You tighten the screw in an anti-clockwise direction and check the torque as you turn the input shaft through its central position. If you over tighten it and then nudge it back a bit it seems to loose its place. It is weird - you would think oh sheet just turn it back and it will be back to where it was - but it isn't. It like there's some form of hysteresis in there (or summit like that).
Strange.
To get back to where you were I think it is necessary to back off all of the tension in the adjusting system and start again.
So I advocate a policy of not messing with that little screw. I think nipping it up is likely to bugger it up...
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Yes, there definitely is a bit of play. I think it's a bit of backlash/lash, so you're right. One would have to screw back in past the original point and then back out to reach a final adjustment.
However, since the boxes I adjust already have that tension in them a note of "only back out, do not tighten screw" would remove the possibility of error. Or something of that sort....
(I'm not sure if there's a European term for backlash/lash
Backlash (engineering) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)