countless generations have solved the steering wheel quest. Seems that just this here dwarf would fail at the syntax.
Finally strong enough to get the wheel, am in the right place and have the wheel in inventory, did <exa wheel> and <exa stick> and tried all of:
>attach wheel
>attach steering wheel
>attach wheel to stick / on stick / with stick / stick
>reattach / put / fix / place / repair / despair ...
To no avail. Each attempt was greeted with the parser's helpless
>what?
I ended up killing some water-krougs instead, one for each failed syntax attempt
If somebody still has the right syntax in mind please leave me a PM or mail Gronkas in game.