Western Star Conventional. Published by Transport Canada as 1985121 on 7 November 1985. System: Steering.
What the notice says On certain trucks, the pitman arm was undertorqued when installed on the sector shaft of the steering box. Separation of the pitman arm would result in loss of steering control.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1985121
- Recall date
- 7 November 1985
- Make
- Western Star
- Models
- Conventional
- Model years
- 1978 to 1984
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 8
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain trucks, the pitman arm was undertorqued when installed on the sector shaft of the steering box. Separation of the pitman arm would result in loss of steering control.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1985121.
Western Star elsewhere in this register
Western Star is named on 210 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1985108 · 29 September 1985 · C.o.e. · Brakes
- 1985096 · 22 August 1985 · Conventional · Seats And Restraints
- 1985088 · 23 July 1985 · C.o.e. · Seats And Restraints
- 1985066 · 22 May 1985 · Conventional · Other
- 1985065 · 21 May 1985 · Conventional · Suspension
- 1986015 · 29 January 1986 · Conventional · Fuel System
- 1984159 · 4 December 1984 · Conventional · Electrical
- 1986135 · 27 November 1986 · C.o.e. · Seats And Restraints
The same system: Steering
582 notices in this register name Steering. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1985137 · 28 November 1985 · Safari, Astro · Steering
- 1985139 · 4 December 1985 · CF Aerialscope · Steering
- 1986009 · 20 January 1986 · S1700, S1900, S2100 · Steering
- 1986031 · 11 March 1986 · Truck · Steering
- 1986112 · 7 October 1986 · Conventional · Steering
- 1986117 · 22 October 1986 · 3 Series · Steering
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Western Star: 210 in the register, and 141 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1985.
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