(Maybe this should be in Suspension & Steering?)
Well......I have completely stripped the threads on the steering shaft removing the steering wheel yet again. Could be the nylock nut was kind of screwed up and I put it on cross-threaded and kept turning - because it's a nylock. Stupid mistake. We were just replacing the turn signal switch.
Anyway, I ruined it. Threads are just mashed flat.
"Steering Spindle Upper", # 32311155367, shows up as NLA in most places I've looked. And, it appears there are a lot of bearings and circlips holding it together, and the column has to come out anyway (?).
So should I just find a good used non-airbag column assembly and swap them?
How tough a job is it? - remove all switches and turn signals, chisel off the fracture bolts, unbolt the firewall plate, unbolt the joint below the U-joint in the engine compartment? Is that all of it?
It's a non-airbag '86.
Are the coupe column and the sedan column the same part?
Thanks -
Well......I have completely stripped the threads on the steering shaft removing the steering wheel yet again. Could be the nylock nut was kind of screwed up and I put it on cross-threaded and kept turning - because it's a nylock. Stupid mistake. We were just replacing the turn signal switch.
Anyway, I ruined it. Threads are just mashed flat.
"Steering Spindle Upper", # 32311155367, shows up as NLA in most places I've looked. And, it appears there are a lot of bearings and circlips holding it together, and the column has to come out anyway (?).
So should I just find a good used non-airbag column assembly and swap them?
How tough a job is it? - remove all switches and turn signals, chisel off the fracture bolts, unbolt the firewall plate, unbolt the joint below the U-joint in the engine compartment? Is that all of it?
It's a non-airbag '86.
Are the coupe column and the sedan column the same part?
Thanks -
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