90 indicator will not stay on

the indicator on my 90 will not stay on when turning right. The stalk will not stay in the on position. Turning left is fine.

Any ideas? Mark

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Mark Solesbury
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The plastic ring and little arms that work the self-cancelling are stuck/gettung stuck for some reason. Tale the cowl off and have a look - it culd be broken, it could be some rubbish has got in - you have got the steering set up so the wheel is the right way when the wheels are pointing stright ahead I assume.

Richard

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beamendsltd

its the alignment adjustments of the steering over the years thats caused that . youre steering wheel is not central to the actual steering centre .

the front drag link can be lengthened or shortened to alter position of steering wheel so the cancelling stop is in the middle , but i guess someone has altered the steering position and steering wheel position over the years which will make none of it line up .

you may be able to rotate the cancelling stop and set it in position so that it works ok , or you might have to adjust the length of the front drag link to get the box/column etc in line with steering in its straight ahead position , then will have to remove steering wheel and put it back on facing correct way .

you will probably find that someones replaced balljoints etc and they havent set the drop arm/draglink/steeringbox/column all to line up correctly centrally , thus the steering wheel would have been pointing to left or right but they would have removed steering wheel and just rotated that in order to line things up, but of course the indicator canceller would still have been offset .

i cant remember if i could take the canceller off and turn it on my 90 defender or if i had to change the front draglink length in order to line up the indicator canceller , whichever way i expect the majority of landrovers all do same as yours[and mine] and dont allways cancel indicators or they dont allow indicators to stay on as you turn steering a little .

the most common problem is that when replacing balljoints , they arent all done at same time, so when someone adjusts the tracking to suit they only adjust the rear drag link to get wheels aligned and no more , hence if steering wheel moves out of central position they just remove it and install it back so it looks in line ..

when replacing drop arm or drag link balljoints people usually just remove steering wheel and move it round to align it again and this is where youre problem lies .

in order to correct the situation it may end up that the balljoints threads cannot be turned without removing draglink and heating it up on ends etc, thus an easier solution is usually opted for , ie steering wheel removal .

even if balljoint threads are copper slipped when assembled, the fine threads allways end up becoming almost seized over a short period of time and it requires a fair amount of work to renew balljoints and get old ones out , this has been same problem for years with landrovers, all the way back to series 1 .

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m0bcg

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