QUOTE(TheCabinetmaker @ Sep 1 2022, 02:15 PM)
If the alignment place had done their job you wouldn't have this problem. Centering the 914 steering wheel is part of an alignment.
Getting harder and harder to find competent alignment shops
Make them do the job properly!
In your case it sounds like alignment was done by prior owner before you bought it and you have no recourse to the original alignment job.
Do not start shifting steering wheel or u-joint splines to try to compensate for
workmanship
I think there are something like 40 splines on the steering wheel. That is 9 degrees per spline. Your just going to end up off center in the other direction by shifting splines.
I’m going to post a link to a TSB from Toyota - not that you can follow it and have it work exactly the same for a 914 - but so you can get an overview of what it takes to finesse it to perfection as a DIY as suggested by
@cairo94507 by tweaking the tie rods.
I’m a perfectionist about steering wheel centering and I am rarely satisfied with what the alignment techs accept
and try to send out the door. Usually I force them to redo it on the spot. If I end up with an exceptionally incompetent tech - There really is little you can do other than DIY or waste a ton of time trying to get it done properly!
https://attachments.priuschat.com/attachmen...-ST003-01_1.pdfNote: the Toyota TSB directions to turn tie rods are affected by whether the steering system is a leading or trailing tie rod set up. See the note within the Toyota TSB that says this works opposite on some Toyota products. Do not assume the Toyota direction to turn the tie rods applies to a 914.
@NARP74Note: I just checked - 2002 Toyota Prius is a trailing tie rod set up same as the 914. I’m not going to try to figure out if the 914 and Prius tie rods are threaded in the same directions and whether they have the same thread pitch. I’d bet they probably are same direction and very close on thread pitch. So as a starting point - you could follow their direction recommendations and probably be moving in the right direction 1st try.