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Can someone tell me what column i have? now with pics
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03/08/12 10:11 PM
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I have a 70 B body with power steering but switching over to manual. I'm rebuilding the column at the same time. When I pulled the steering shaft the inner and outer shafts were already loose (separated). I think my column may have already been for a manual car but someone compressed the shaft so it would fit a power car, since the power shaft is shorter. If you look at the pic you can see the plastic pieces corresponding with the holes in the outer shafts. But on inner column at the right side of the pic you can see the marks showing where the column was actually installed relative to the outer shaft. Does this make sense? If so I think I can orient the inner shaft to its original location based on the plastic plugs and use for my manual box.
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Re: Can someone tell me what column i have?
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I've also been told for a '70 that the outer shafts are different lengths for power and manual, with respect to the welded ends. here's a pic of mine, looks about 7.5" inches. I've always thought these were the same.
Looking at GTX's pic it seems there are different outer shafts for power and manual. His looks about 4" from weld to end of shaft for a power column, mine looks like 7.5" from weld to end of shaft.
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Re: Can someone tell me what column i have? now with pics
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The small plastic pins that are sheared off now were just there for the original assembly at the car plant. It's a telescoping shaft, and the plastic pins helped hold the length of the shaft assembly, so it wouldn't separate or fall apart during shipping or assembly when installed into the car at the plant.
As most of us know and probably obvious (but it wasn't mentioned yet), it's a telescoping shaft, a safety feature, during a frontal impact accident, the shaft will collapse and it won't push the steering wheel into your chest cavity. Whatever you do, don't weld the shafts together, it's intended to be a slip fit joint and lining it back up to the original location with the correct shafts for your steering setup is ideal.
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Re: Can someone tell me what column i have?
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I would say you have a manual steering shaft there. I took a look under the hood of my car and it appears to be about the length you have. If you look at GTX6970's there is about 3.5" between the weld and about where the center pins for the shoes would be. Yours looks to have about 1.5 to 2.0 inches more.
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