Honda Civic/Acura Integra

since 1994 release

Repair and operation of the car

Removal and installation of a steering wheel

Removal

Considered in the present manual of the car are equipped with safety cushions (SRS). When performing any works near sensors of blows, a steering column or the dashboard disconnect SRS (see schemes of electric connections at the end of the Head Onboard electric equipment).

PERFORMANCE ORDER

1. Disconnect from the battery at first a negative wire, then positive. If the stereosystem established on the car is equipped with a security code before disconnecting the battery make sure that you have the correct combination for input of the audio system in action! 2a. Turn a steering wheel on 180 ° so that the cover of access to its internal part appeared above. Uncover. 2b. From its internal party the socket crossing point intended for a safety cushion module immobilization is fixed. 2c. Take the socket from a clamp on a cover (see an accompanying illustration). 2d. Disunite yellow color the socket of the cable reel of the SRS module and install the socket crossing point to the place of its plug, having temporarily immobilized thereby the safety cushion module. 3a. Turn out both screws with heads like TORX from the party of assembly of a steering wheel turned to the dashboard (see accompanying illustrations). 3b. These screws on assembly fixed the SRS module. 4. Remove the module from assembly of a steering wheel and move away him to the safe place, having laid a front surface up. Try not to turn the module the face to yourself. Do not put from above on the module any foreign objects at all. 5. Disunite electric sockets of the button of a horn and (at the corresponding complete set) a tempostata. 6. Give a nut of fastening of a steering wheel. Having removed a nut, mark the provision of a nave of a steering wheel concerning a column shaft (see an accompanying illustration). 7. Having pulled a wheel strictly parallel to the axis, remove it from a steering shaft. If the wheel does not give in, a few its poraskachivayta. Do not allow rotation of a shaft of a column at the removed steering wheel as it can lead to damage of the cable reel of the SRS module.

Installation

PERFORMANCE ORDER

1. Make sure that forward wheels of the car are developed in rectilinear situation. 2. Make sure that the arrow with marking of TORAHS of the SRS cable reel specifies strictly up (see an accompanying illustration), – if the column camshaft after removal of a steering wheel did not rotate with this question there should be no problems. If for any reason the shaft nevertheless turned, make centering, working as follows:    a) Turn the cable reel against the stop clockwise;    b) Turn the cable reel counterclockwise approximately on two turns so that the yellow tooth of a gear wheel was combined with a tag on a cover (treats only some models), and marking of "TORAHS" appeared above. 3. Bring a steering wheel to regular situation and achieve combination of the landing tags put in the course of dismantle (see paragraph 6, Removal). Make sure that the directing pins of a column get to reciprocal openings from a reverse side of a steering wheel. Put a wheel nave on a pin of a steering shaft, screw a fixing nut and tighten it with the required effort. 4. Connect sockets of a horn and (at the corresponding complete set) a tempostata. 5. Install into place the SRS module, having fixed it by new TORX screws. Track that screws were tightened with the required effort. Establish to the place of a cover of access to screws. 6. Take the socket crossing point. 7. Connect together halves of the socket of the SRS cable reel. 8. Latch the socket crossing point in a clamp from a reverse side of a cover of access and establish the last on assembly of a steering wheel.