# Service bulletin 9713

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 51358
- Published by NHTSA: 1997\-06\-27
- Manufacturer's number: 9713
- Manufacturer's date: 1997\-01\-02
- NHTSA component: STEERING:GEAR BOX \(OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION\)

## NHTSA's summary

A "GRUNTING" OR "GROANING" NOISE MAY OCCUR AS THE STEERING WHEEL RETURNS TO ITS CENTER POSITION DURING A FULL RIGHT TURN ON SOME VEHICLES\- THIS MAY BE DUE TO THE STEERING GEAR VALVE SLEEVE CREATING A RESONANCE THROUGH THE STEERING SYSTEM. \*JD

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Steering, Steering gear

## Vehicles listed

- 1996 FORD TAURUS
- 1997 MERCURY SABLE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [BC0307970201](/bulletins/51107.md), 1997-06-27, Service bulletin: STEERING:RACK AND PINION. GROAN NOISE FROM POWER STEERING. \*JD

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