When I turn my steering wheel it clicks. It never did this before... Anyone have this happen?

When I turn slightly or a sharper, a little click comes about...

 

hmmm sounds like maybe its ur power steering, check the fluids, it isnt a"Grinding" right? cuz that is bad.... then i would check my axles

 

its just little click...

ALSO... when I step on the gas and turn I need to steer and hang onto the wheel for dear life or else the car will fly right off the road. The wheel used to just whip back at me, going into a straight position... but not now. Any relation here ?

 

check your axles

 

power steering is what helps u turn the wheel easy and makes it go back to place easier, im thinking that is the problem... is it harder to turn the wheel as well??

 

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Come to think of it... I think the wheel is tougher to turn now, than it used to be. But it was likely a gradual thing.

The car goes to Honda for scheduled maintenance within the week... is steering covered in their inspection ?

 

check the sterring raqeut pinion(sp?) where the steering shaft meets it... there are two 14mm bolts that mount it to the fire wall... mines made noise when i turn my wheel at a dead stopm and it was harder to turn. i was missing one bolt and that was my problem...

 

i would check the transmision my friend grinded his differential teeth off so he has to get a new transmission..........

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by BADEG6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">check your axles</TD></TR></TABLE> or your steering rack is shot. I had mine replaced at Honda not too long ago, $800+ .

 

could also be the steering shaft bearing.

 

Check axles. Had that problem and found ripped boots and dry cv joints. Hope this helps.

 

cv joint maybe sounds like to me

 

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damn.. that's crazy.. i had my manual rack rebuilt and it only cost 180.. feels like brand new again.. now i have have bad tie rods..

 

My steering wheel does that same ****, but only when its really cold outside...hmm....

 

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had the same problem, except my cv boots were completely gone

 

The steering wheel not rebounding to center is usually caused by a steering geometry change. Is your car lowered have you had an alignment recently? Is the clicking coming at full lock if so check your cv boots. What year is your car?

 

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