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Originally Posted by christuna
Safety. Last thing you want is this thing locking up while you're driving.
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I understand your suspicion but if the parts inside of the steering column look are in good condition as soon as you turn the Key the locking plunger is moved out of position and blocked from returning unless you turn the key back.
Some of us have had our steering column locks apart and in fact I sawed my old one apart to see what was inside.
This only about what I did to deactivate my Locking Plunger on the Steering Colum Lock. I cannot speak for what others did.
Look at the attached picture. you see a black arrow pointing at a small metal piece/Pin. That piece is part of the anti-theft device to keep people from yanking out the Steering Colum Lock without having a key to turn it into the proper position to remove the Steering Colum Lock.
In the picture you see when the Key is turned into the proper position how the Steering Colum Lock Plunger when it is disengaged has a slot around it. In the pic you see the Pin is depressed and it goes into the slot. When that pin is depressed into the slot it holds the Locking Plunger/deactivates it. And, at the same time allows you to pull the Steering Colum Lock out of the Steering Colum Bracket.
What I did is while that Pin is depressed inwards and holding holding/deactivation the Locking Plunger I epoxied it in the depressed position so it permanently holds/deactivates the Locking Plunger (meaning on mine the Locking Plunger never locks the steering column).
In what must be a nearly impossible event that the epoxy did not hold and the pin popped back out the Locking Plunger would simply return to the normal operation. It is not going to lock up from that while you are driving because in order to drive the key is turned to a position that keeps has the Locking Plunger always unlocked.