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Originally Posted by cmac2012
... Why wouldn't the resistance in the plate to which you refer operate in both directions? ...
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The spring which I refer to loads a "detent", meaning a ball which partially drops into a hole at various places when the key is turned, holding it in each position. Unless you pry off that steel plate on the die-cast housing, you will never see it and understand. I took no photos.
Might have been 10 years ago when I took it apart on my 1984 300D to find the broken pieces which were jamming the key turning. It is an axial spring which applies a force in a radial direction to the rotating shaft. It is not oriented axially with the steering lock rod.