Need help with 63 directional switch
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Need help with 63 directional switch
When I pulled the steering column apart to attach the directional cable, This detent bushing was just laying in there. Please help where it goes. Pictures I have in assembly and service manual do not help. Pictures attached Picture # 4 shows detent, does it go on the pole to the left of it and is collar suppose to face up to the roof or down towards the floor. Does it go on the inside or outside of the detent spring???
Last edited by prestige6; Jan 21, 2016 at 05:55 PM.
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Your actuating ring is different from the one in the manual, probably from another year. The collar of the detent roller should be oriented upwards, the opposite of how it's placed in your picture.
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Yes, the canceling ring in the book and in the pictures match. Not near my car now but, to me, the manual clearly shows the collar on the bushing goes towards the car's foot pedals. It looks to me that the bushing goes on a pin in the base of the turn signal housing down in the steering column bell. The canceling ring pine MAY (not 100% sure) may go down in the top of the bushing and meet the pin coming up from the bell.
Just what I can see from the pic in the manual.
Just what I can see from the pic in the manual.
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Yes, the canceling ring in the book and in the pictures match. Not near my car now but, to me, the manual clearly shows the collar on the bushing goes towards the car's foot pedals. It looks to me that the bushing goes on a pin in the base of the turn signal housing down in the steering column bell. The canceling ring pine MAY (not 100% sure) may go down in the top of the bushing and meet the pin coming up from the bell.
Just what I can see from the pic in the manual.
Just what I can see from the pic in the manual.
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My memory on this is bad but I will offer my thoughts.
The assembly goes just like the picture the service manual shows and the detent roller sets in the detent spring so it fits in the valley in the neutral position, (blinkers off). If you mock it up I believe it will be obvious but I want to make one more point.
In the service manual section 12 page 17 like you show please note under the correction paragraph where there is reference to a lock washer under the actuating ring pivot pin. Mine was missing if there was one there originally but if the actuating ring is to tight when the pin is tightened install a lock washer the proper diameter and actuating ring movement will be good and you will be able to tighten up the pivot pin snug.
The picture in the service manual may be from a earlier Impala that used a similar arrangement.
The assembly goes just like the picture the service manual shows and the detent roller sets in the detent spring so it fits in the valley in the neutral position, (blinkers off). If you mock it up I believe it will be obvious but I want to make one more point.
In the service manual section 12 page 17 like you show please note under the correction paragraph where there is reference to a lock washer under the actuating ring pivot pin. Mine was missing if there was one there originally but if the actuating ring is to tight when the pin is tightened install a lock washer the proper diameter and actuating ring movement will be good and you will be able to tighten up the pivot pin snug.
The picture in the service manual may be from a earlier Impala that used a similar arrangement.
Last edited by tbarb; Jan 22, 2016 at 12:21 PM.
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