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New Steering wheel, messed up alignment

furious70

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I finally got and installed my repro woodgrain wheel, previously had a Grant with their adaptor. When I did the R&R, the woodgrain wheel wasn't centered as the Grant adaptor wasn't the same. So I rotated the tie rod sleeves equal amounts best I could and got the steering wheel pretty close to centered - but the turn signal canceling isn't correct now. When I turn left it cancels early and when I turn right it won't cancel. With the wheel centered within a couple degrees, I'm lost as to how this can be and how to fix?

I'm also pulling to the right now. I only adjusted the tie rod sleeves so does that mean I just need to adjust toe to fix that (must not have been exact in my adjustments?)
 
Hmm...thinking out loud here. It sort of "sounds" like your steering coupler might be 180-degrees out???
 
Cancel "coil" on the hub needs to be realigned. They'll move by tapping the "post" in the direction that opens the spring coil enough to release the hub.
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Is the steering wheel spline aligned with the shaft ? Is the steering wheel centered when doing a lock-to-lock check ? Then, adjusting the tie-rod sleeves for correct (1/8") toe-in ?
 
Cooking my noodle thinking through which way to move it if it's cancelling early to left and not at all to right.
Another way to tackle it, the wheel in your photo, does that one wheel correctly as adjusted
 
Is the steering wheel spline aligned with the shaft ? Is the steering wheel centered when doing a lock-to-lock check ? Then, adjusting the tie-rod sleeves for correct (1/8") toe-in ?
Yes it's splined like oem
 
Cooking my noodle thinking through which way to move it if it's cancelling early to left and not at all to right.
Another way to tackle it, the wheel in your photo, does that one wheel correctly as adjusted
I had to rotate that a bit clockwise (looking at it as shown) to match the OE wheel I took off. Remember it's cancelling the signal, so if Left is cancelling early you will need to move the coil post CCW when looking at the wheel as show above. The not cancelling when turning right is hopefully not a broken cancel arm on the switch assembly. If you turn the wheel further left, after turning right, ie after straightening out, yank the wheel into a left turn, does it cancel?
 
I need to go to a parking lot to test that, can't turn it enough when making an actual right turn to cancel at the moment. It was working with the Grant wheel so I hope I didn't break it during r&,r
 
I finally got and installed my repro woodgrain wheel, previously had a Grant with their adaptor. When I did the R&R, the woodgrain wheel wasn't centered as the Grant adaptor wasn't the same. So I rotated the tie rod sleeves equal amounts best I could and got the steering wheel pretty close to centered - but the turn signal canceling isn't correct now. When I turn left it cancels early and when I turn right it won't cancel. With the wheel centered within a couple degrees, I'm lost as to how this can be and how to fix?

I'm also pulling to the right now. I only adjusted the tie rod sleeves so does that mean I just need to adjust toe to fix that (must not have been exact in my adjustments?)
Wow sounds like you messed it up but good. Take it to a alignment shop and have the toe set with the steering wheel centered. Toe adjustment isn't a pulling angle unless you are way off from zero. Is it possible you installed the new wheel off from center and you are driving down the road with the wheel centered and of course it will steer to the direction the wheel is off. If the car pulls, it will pull with your hands off the wheel regardless of whether the wheel is centered or not.
 
The wheel can only go on one way, splined like OEM. It was not centered as I said, so I adjusted both tie rod sleeves to get it centered. And it pulls to the right when I let go, yes. It did not do that with the Grant wheel. And all I adjusted was the tie rod sleeves, nothing else about the alignment.
 
The wheel can only go on one way, splined like OEM. It was not centered as I said, so I adjusted both tie rod sleeves to get it centered. And it pulls to the right when I let go, yes. It did not do that with the Grant wheel. And all I adjusted was the tie rod sleeves, nothing else about the alignment.
You need the toe set correctly then. That still wouldn't address your turn signal issue unless your wheel is a turn off in one direction. Did you move the steering shaft when you changed the wheel?
 
dadsbee gave me the likely solution for the turn cancels on the steering wheel itself. No, everything stayed in place as I swapped the wheels.
 
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