Re: Steering Wheel column rattle/thumping?
Had the same problem. Mine had a steering shaft problem:
To diagnose:
- Center steering wheel and wheels.
- Turn the motor off so you won't have steering assist.
- Have someone (wife or next door chick) to wiggle the steering wheel left and right. just very short movements.
- you should hear a clunk with every wiggle.
- Get under the car and locate the clunk it should be on the steering shaft on one of the 2 cross joints. Mine clunked at the lower joint. If you grab the shaft just before one of the joints with a bit of pulling force and it stops clunking you have located the joint that caused the clunk.
Exito !
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Victory Red 2006 H3 Luxury, Automatic, OEM steps, Sunroof. MODS: Torsion bars 4X, Front Bilstein shocks, Front adjustable swaybar links, Rear Rancho shocks, rear 6.5 inch shackles, Rear Quick disconnects swaybar links, Black rims, Hidden hitch, Husky mud flaps, Trasko spin on filter, No intake resonator, Enlarged 3" snorkel opening, No muffler
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