[77newell]

While on the way to Memphis I noticed that the longer I drove on a continuous basis the more my steering deteriorated. the steering column in the area of the tilt mechanism would start squeaking and the steering would increasingly have an initial stickiness when I made a steering input. It became a matter of the steering inputs being stick, move, oversteer, stop, stick, move, oversteer in the opposite direction and stop, repeated endlessly. The problem wasn't severe, it just made precision difficult. The problem disappeared for several hours when I applied some Teflon spray through the various gaps in the column covers near the tilt mechanism. Since I arrived in Memphis I've sprayed while lithium grease through the same openings hoping for a longer term solution. BTW, the steering improvement was wonderful. I had not realized the concentration that I had been investing as a result of the stickiness.