Western Star Conventional. Published by Transport Canada as 1995019 on 10 February 1995. System: Steering.
What the notice says On certain trucks, the steering knuckle (where the steering arm is installed) may not have had corrosion inhibiting grease removed prior to assembly. The joints may also have been assembled with keys and nuts that were softer than specified. This may allow the arm to turn inside the knuckle thus shearing the locator …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1995019
- Recall date
- 10 February 1995
- Make
- Western Star
- Models
- Conventional
- Model years
- 1994
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 396
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain trucks, the steering knuckle (where the steering arm is installed) may not have had corrosion inhibiting grease removed prior to assembly. The joints may also have been assembled with keys and nuts that were softer than specified. This may allow the arm to turn inside the knuckle thus shearing the locator key. If the arm is allowed to turn freely, steering control will be lost without prior warning and a crash could occur. Correction: Steer arm/knuckle joints will be cleaned, nuts and keys will be replaced and nuts will be torqued to specification.
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 1995019.
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.
- 1995014 · 8 February 1995 · Conventional · Structure
- 1995035 · 23 February 1995 · Conventional · Brakes
- 1995044 · 7 March 1995 · Conventional · Brakes
- 1995135 · 20 July 1995 · Conventional · Brakes
- 1994202 · 30 December 1994 · Conventional · Steering
- 1994198 · 19 December 1994 · Conventional · Engine
- 1994177 · 8 November 1994 · Conventional · Suspension
- 1994087 · 6 May 1994 · Conventional · Brakes
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.
- 1995016 · 8 February 1995 · F-800, F-700 · Steering
- 1995034 · 23 February 1995 · Aare Non-School Bus, Csre School Bus, Aare School Bus · Steering
- 1995010 · 31 January 1995 · Cutlass Supreme, Regal, Grand Prix · Steering
- 1995040 · 1 March 1995 · Regal · Steering
- 1995001 · 5 January 1995 · MX Z, Formula Iii, Mach 1 · Steering
- 1995109 · 16 June 1995 · Dakota, Ram, Ram Van · Steering
Reading this against the source
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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 237 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1995.
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