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While I was puttering with my choke cable, I decided to investigate another issue since I've gotten very good at removing Ms. Jenavieve's steering wheel (it makes working under the dash so much easier) and it seemed like an opportune time.
Seems like the steering wheel has never mounted properly, like I couldn't tighten it down all the way, and upon further investigation it would appear that one of the PO's has replaced the turn signal switch with an MGB one (as many others on this forum have done).
The switch has the big blue plastic cancelling collar, and looking at it I can see why the wheel won't tighten down properly since it's not able to seat without mashing up against the cancel collar.
I have searched the forum and found a bunch of references to cutting the collar down, but nothing specific as to "how much should be removed" or "what is the proper thickness". Anyone know that off the top of their head? The engineer in me says to do it this way:
(1) mount the wheel as is, snug as I can
(2) note the position of the nut on the shaft
(3) remove the wheel
(4) remove the turn signal switch assembly
(5) mount the wheel again, snugging it down properly
(6) note the position of the nut on the shaft again
(7) compute the difference between (2) and (6)
(8) remove a little more than that from the collar.
Unless someone can say "you need to remove 1/2 inch from the collar" or something like that, I guess that's my approach. I figure the worst case scenario is that I take too much off and I lose the cancelling feature.
Anyone?