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Dec 17, 2024 | 09:13 PM

Uniquemicro

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This is why I have trust issues

Purchased lower steering column bearing from Zip Corvette. Open the package and the document calls it an upper steering column bearing. Semantics? Is this correct?

Dec 17, 2024 | 10:21 PM

Newbomb2469

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Would call Zip and ask them if this happened to me

Dec 17, 2024 | 10:47 PM

RickM Z06

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It looks like a lower col. bearing and retainer to me. Did a replacement on my 78 col. last year.

Dec 17, 2024 | 11:58 PM

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I hope you returned that steering box while you were at Zip.

I needed to get the steering column in the vise to collapse it for a Borgeson conversion. It made it easier to replace the lower column bushing while I was in there.

Are there pictures in the shop manual? Another good reference is Jim Shea's steering papers, now hosted on the Internet Archive:

One source:
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...is-papers.html

300 Megs at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/corvettefaq

Dec 18, 2024 | 05:30 AM

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I'm with Rick. It certainly looks like the correct part. I don't get the labelling as well. As long as the part is correct, who cares. Some 18 year old typing labels?