Reassembling the steering column
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Reassembling the steering column
i've done a search, but couldn't find the answer i was looking for.
i'm reassembling the steering column in my 84. it's got a tilt with the telescopic (moves in and out) wheel. the problem is getting that spring between the upper bearing, and the horn contact compressed.
i have a spring compressor... but there's a C clip that keeps everything tight, and keeps the telescopic part of the shaft from coming all the way out. but, i can't get the spring to compress, because the telescopic shaft keeps coming out... how do you get that shaft to stay in, inorder to compress the spring?
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shaft down
Shaft up
i'm reassembling the steering column in my 84. it's got a tilt with the telescopic (moves in and out) wheel. the problem is getting that spring between the upper bearing, and the horn contact compressed.
i have a spring compressor... but there's a C clip that keeps everything tight, and keeps the telescopic part of the shaft from coming all the way out. but, i can't get the spring to compress, because the telescopic shaft keeps coming out... how do you get that shaft to stay in, inorder to compress the spring?
pics attached...
Tools/parts
shaft down
Shaft up
Drifting
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Central Pennsylvannia
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i had a problem getting the C clip back in after i locked the wheel back down, i had my neighbor push it down, while i dropped the C clip back in.
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From: Database Error Indiana
its been a while. I think you have to put the phillips head screw back in, push the collumn down and tighten the screw.Then attach your tool.
Drifting
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From: Central Pennsylvannia
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All i can remember is pushing the shaft all the way down, putting the spring on, then the assembly, and while my buddy pushed hard on the assembly i slipped the C-clip on, it took a few times, its was hard to do, but not impossible.
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From: SE NY
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Your problem is because you have the wrong puller tool; you need the type for tele wheels that has a pin in the center to hold the tele rod down while you compress the sping in order to slip in the C-clip.
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