Steering clunk fix

Odyssey.owner · Mar 25, 2018

There was a steering clunk I was chasing for a long time. Found some info, about distributing grease by moving steering column up and down. That was helping, for a short period of time, but clunk would always come back.

Today I finally had a few minutes to spent on my van, and I applied some thick grease on the steering column ( circled area on the picture ) tried to push some of it inside, not sure how much went in there.

Anyhow, driving around without any clunk whatsoever. Very quiet.

Glennda5id · Mar 25, 2018

There is a TSB for this a very specific grease to use that Honda sells.

Odyssey.owner · Mar 26, 2018

Glennda5id said:
There is a TSB for this a very specific grease to use that Honda sells.

Thank you. I just found the part number for this special grease. It is 06539-SLJ-003

Will see how my grease will hold up, I might buy this Honda stuff and grease column again. If I have time for it )

OdysseyMan1223 · May 31, 2018

I will have to try this myself. I figured it was the steering column making noise on mine too wasn't 100%. Thought I was going crazy thinking it was powersteering rack issue.

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Odyssey.owner · May 31, 2018

OdysseyMan1223 said:
thinking it was powersteering rack issue.

Same here, I was pretty pissed off thinking about steering rack replacement. To my surprise, cost of this fix was 0 dollars, and took only 2 minutes.

MrRangerZr1 · May 31, 2018

So turn the steering wheel left or right to reveal the column and slather some grease on it?

OdysseyMan1223 · May 31, 2018

Odyssey.owner said:
Same here, I was pretty pissed off thinking about steering rack replacement. To my surprise, cost of this fix was 0 dollars, and took only 2 minutes.

Thank God! Don't need anymore parts replaced haha At least for while.

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OdysseyMan1223 · May 31, 2018

MrRangerZr1 said:
So turn the steering wheel left or right to reveal the column and slather some grease on it?

I believe it's up and down. For the telescoping wheel. Will have to ask to be sure

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Odyssey.owner · May 31, 2018

MrRangerZr1 said:
So turn the steering wheel left or right to reveal the column and slather some grease on it?

TSB says to take it apart and grease splines thoroughly. I just greased whatever I could without taking it apart.

OdysseyMan1223 · Jun 6, 2018

Odyssey.owner said:
TSB says to take it apart and grease splines thoroughly. I just greased whatever I could without taking it apart.

I did the samething. Greased what I could and the clunking is gone.

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mattorzechowski · Jun 29, 2018

Could you email me the jpg I cant open it through the forum

Odyssey.owner · Jun 29, 2018

mattorzechowski said:
Could you email me the jpg I cant open it through the forum

Forum is glitching lately, but there wasnt anything special on that picture, just the lower end of steering column, the part where lower and upper ends of steering column connect via splines. Grease on these splines gets dry, and column starts clunking. All you need to do is grease these splines again with $20 Honda special grease. I used regular thick grease, worked for me.

mattorzechowski · Jul 2, 2018

Cool! I bought a $5 tube of white lithium and squeezed a good sized glob right in the u-joint under the plastic cover. Now the van no longer clunks over slow speed bumps!

Odyssey.owner · Jul 2, 2018

mattorzechowski said:
Cool! I bought a $5 tube of white lithium and squeezed a good sized glob right in the u-joint under the plastic cover. Now the van no longer clunks over slow speed bumps!

SPLINES is what usually makes noise, when grease dries up. If your U-joints make noise, I would replace them.

MrRangerZr1 · Jul 2, 2018

What kind of grease to use here? Which Honda grease?

thscott · Jul 2, 2018

It's a Honda special grease called "column spline lubricant" (P/N 06539-SLJ-003).

Costs about $18.

TmC98640 · Sep 1, 2021

My brother purchased an '02 for an inspection vehicle and we have done only minor repairs. It's a great vehicle. 163k. He hated the clunk and ordered an $800 front end kit from RockA. Finished installing that and the clunk remained. Checked the Forum here and this was first search result. Easy fix, clunk gone! Thanks guys.

surgeon · Sep 1, 2021

Steering Spline Lubricant 06539-SLJ-003 - What type grease?

Does anyone know what type of grease is used to fix the steering pops or clunks in service bulletin 07-065? "REQUIRED MATERIALSSteering column spline lubricant, 10 g: P/N 06539-SLJ-003 (One container repairs about five vehicles.)" I would assume some type moly lube for metal/metal spline, but...

www.odyclub.com

Looks like alternative grease is ARP Part # 100-9908 per TSM_Pikachu. Wonder how well the super sticky CV joint grease would work here or the Assembly lube.

Would be nice if someone posts a pic of the grease for ref. I have some of each of those two. Also have some of the valvoline Synthetic grease (pink).

Bear3412 · Sep 1, 2021

So the ultimate solution was lubricating the steering column?
The clunk went away after lubing steering column?

Is that correct?
That is what finally solved your "clunk"

Correct me if I am wrong.
Did you pull it apart like the TSB suggests?

Our van is beginning to show these symptoms.
In the past I just pulled out the telescopic steering as far as possible, lubed it, then ran the column up and down, to lube.
That helped, and silenced things for a time.

But I know I need to perform the TSB.
It's clunky again.
You can't quite get that grease where needed w/o performing TSB

There is a TSB on many models/years regarding the steering clunk.

http://www.urvi.net/forumfiles/SB/A07-065.PDF

Odyssey.owner · Sep 1, 2021

Bear3412 said:
So the ultimate solution was lubricating the steering column?

Yes, that lube fix still works, four years later )

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