Steering Reach

[black400]

Hi lads and ladys, the steering reach on my 2000 reg is starting to sound dry and is slow .do i grease , silicon spray ? any ideas

[black400]

any body got a bit of advice here , i am feeling lonely .

[Bassman]

I have read a bit about this somewhere, but cannot remember where, but as far as i remember they removed the shroud and greased the moveable bits, and that freed it off and it was then working all fine.

I am still looking for it, and if I find it I will pst the link here mate.

[Bluesbreaker]

All right, I'll keep you company, if nobody else will.........I don't think it would do any harm, I would say, to try a sparing spurt of WD40 on any mechanism you can access, (few paper towels to avoid excess dripping on to carpets/upholstery/your own clothes) I've never used silicone spray on anything other than sticking seat-belts, (and it works!) so can't help you there,wouldn't have thought it would do any harm though?

[The-Acre]

There is a YouTube vid on repairing the mechanism, it may help to show the insides!.

[Bassman]

Hre is a link to a repair and lubrication of the column. It might help.

http://www.lexusownersclub.co.uk/forum/topic/67627-noisy-steering-column/

Cheers

Keith

[black400]

Thanks lads , by the way the silicon works a treat on hoover cables that wont recline.

[black400]

Thats vid is for the up down .and is worth haveing

[The-Acre]

Thanks lads , by the way the silicon works a treat on hoover cables that wont recline.

Hmmm, I wonder if it works on a womans tongue that won't recline......

[black400]

I got a tip of a toyota machanic to let the reach out fully and spray silicon in and around the gap., i dix it and it stopped the dry noise etc and is much smoother, it seems they get dirty around the houseing.

[Titch LS]

My mk4's steering wheel would judder too when it was retracting, after switching the engine off. So, I took the cowl off and greased the two largish winding screw threads I found under there. This worked, but not immediately as I'd hoped. It took several weeks before I didn't hear or feel any judder, (I still don't, even after 2 years), but I was surprised that it took that long to work properly once again, after greasing. I still don't really understand why. By the way, the later LS 400's (mk4's, like mine) don't have that little blue wheel as part of the retracting mechanism. Instead, they have an updated retracting mechanism also found on the 430.