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Old 07-31-2013, 03:15 PM
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Help me put my steering column back together

Well I finally drilled out my steering lock pin and replaced it with a new lock/switch/tumbler combo. The ordeal leading up to this job was chronicled in this thread.

I got most everything done without too much fuss (but lots of sweat because the car is parked nowhere near shade). But to drop the column low enough to drill the lock comfortably, I had to disconnect the nuts behind the gauge cluster and also the nuts at the bracket near the firewall (by the rubber isolator joint). I was lacking in-out slack though, so to get the column free from said bracket, I used a bit of force from a pry bar. Unfortunately, it seems a bit more difficult to use the same method for reinstallation.

I loosened the allen pinch bolt in front of the isolator trying to get the column to slide out about a cm but it doesn't see, to budge. Can anyone help me get my car back together?

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Old 07-31-2013, 10:11 PM
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I haven't looked at my steering column in a while, but you didn't bend that crinkly thing at the steering box end of the column, did you?
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talking about the thing at the upper end of the steering column here.



What confuses me is that I do not remember a way to lower the column, and you using the prybar makes it sound like you bent something you shouldn't have. I may be wrong, though.
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Old 07-31-2013, 10:28 PM
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talking about the thing at the upper end of the steering column here.



What confuses me is that I do not remember a way to lower the column, and you using the prybar makes it sound like you bent something you shouldn't have. I may be wrong, though.
Thanks for the great Pic of the Steering Colum Assembly!
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I haven't looked at my steering column in a while, but you didn't bend that crinkly thing at the steering box end of the column, did you?
I am thinking the same thing....I remember pulling a friends column to drill the lock....I seem to remember I only undid like 3 bolts and I was able to take the hole upper half of the column out....I had to bend the dash toward me a bit...to get the tumbler housing free but it all came right off....I remember saying to myself god I wish american steering columns were this easy to remove....
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Old 08-01-2013, 10:23 AM
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Maybe I bent that bit a little. Not forcefully though. The issue I had was the bracket right in front of the rubber isolator in your pic (on the wheel side of the isolator). I pried between that bracket and the bracket it bolts to underneath the dash because it wouldn't pull forward to pop over those studs.
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Old 08-02-2013, 11:18 AM
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Bump. I am in the final stretch! Nothing is bent! Well, maybe one of those lower studs, slightly. But everything lines up, I just need a little slack to put it back together.
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Old 08-02-2013, 11:26 AM
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Got any pics?
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Old 08-02-2013, 11:30 AM
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I shall take some shortly.

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