***"the "rack and pinion" so to speak, is centered, so I did not "skip" a tooth or two."*** That is NOT exactly a decisive way to tell whether a tooth has jumped, but usually, that works ok. The big gear is the SECTOR gear, so called because it is a "sector" of a circle. The small gear is the pinion, so, "sector and pinion" if you will. The best way to evaluate whether the pinion has jumped a tooth, or if something has become bent/twisted further "down stream", is to drive the tractor straight forward on a smooth, hard, preferably level (no side gradient) surface, taking careful notice of the "clock position" of the steering wheel. You can even mark the steering wheel with a small piece of masking tape and a corresponding piece of tape on a stationary surface if you don't trust the memory. With the steering wheel in the position you determined to be "straight forward travel", count the teeth on the sector gear and put a permanent mark on the sector gear center tooth. If the sector gear center tooth aligns with the center teeth/tooth of the pinion gear, the pinion gear has jumped maybe one tooth of the sector gear sometime during operation. You may have been making a hard turn when this occured and simply did not notice the click or bump that accompanies a tooth jump. But, if the center tooth of the sector gear lies to one or the other side of pinion gear center, you have bent something in the steering components further out toward the tires/wheels. Because the tires seek a "point of equilibrium" (regarding rolling resistance), bending or twisting a steering knuckle or spindle will change the "toe setting" between the left and right wheels. When the tires find the new point of equilibrium, the sector gear will be at a different orientation, and consequently...the clock position of the steering wheel will be off center as well. So, the first thing you need to do is determine whether a tooth has jumped, or not. If a tooth has jumped, do as rcmoser says and remove & re-index the steering wheel (which by BTW, your owners manual says to do also). The fact that Craftsman includes a small detail like that in the OM implies (to me) that this is actually a fairly common issue. Of course, on the factory end of the equation, this gives Craftsman a big lever to deny warranty claims for the off center wheel!!! They just say "you hit something, warranty does not cover that!". I'm being a bit pessimistic by including that in the post, but I've seen lots of "disclaimers" used by OEMs to deny warranty considerations, so I figure they might have out that in there for their own ulterior motives. If you find that the sector gear is actually centered where it should be, you might want to look very carefully at everything about your steering links, spindles, axle and mounts before changing the steering wheel orientation.

I have found that this problem occurs because the carriage is in the wrong place. Use the following steps. Turn off the printer. open the door. If the carriage holding the cartridges does not rest at the proper place Ie where you can get the cartridges out then slide the cartridges to the correct place. Now shut the door and fire up the printer. You should not be asked to align

My husband and I both now think this problem in shower is really a valve/cartridge problem... the plumber is not coming out until Monday -- the company said that they were not required to come out sooner because 1--the weather is still under 32 and apparently this plumbing co will not check frozen pipes when it is still freezing (unlike some others -- I know that is a jacked-up attitude) and 2-- we don't really HAVE an emergency since we have another shower to use and there is no evidence of secondary damage occurring-- frankly I think that is because we are using our home warrenty contract to cover this call and they know they can't jack up our rates -- We have no basement--house is in DFW TX area--homes here (unless they are built on sloping lot with serious elevation change)almost never have basements... We still have no prblem w/water flow in any bathroom except for this shower-- but we are letting it drip again tonight--and a sink faucet on an exterior wall...(just to humor me more than anything) Do either of you know if having a re-circulating HW system so that you get "instant" hot water when you turn on that tap makes a difference when you are trying to prevent freezing pipes-- I don't know how these plumbing lines are run for that system--and I have read there are couple of ways to design/install one...

While you can wait a while on the phone with Grohe their tech support and service has been excellent when I've needed them. I do however feel your pain on the wait although I've never had a delay on parts. In fact they usually arrive so fast I'm shocked in a very positive way. Look at the bright side. When you get through you will be speaking to some one in the US, that understands and speaks English. That's getting to be about as rare as Hens Teeth. They also understand their products so I'm confident they will be able to help.