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Originally Posted by Dead Parrot

Below most of of the guts like turn signal, ignition and such, there are 3(4?) screws that when loose can cause a lot of slop. If those sheered, might cause your problem. Don't know any easy way to check without pulling all the guts.

They may be what attaches the upper shaft to the u-joint. I haven't had to go further then that yet.

Sounds about what I was thinking. I remember having to tighten those bolts on the tilt column for my '90 model/OBS 1/2 ton. The bolts themselves are light duty for sure.

That being said, my tilt didn't have slop so that would suggest the bolts were seated well. Just trying to get ideas. I don't want to take it apart since it's still somewhat moveable in its current state (it needs to be mobile for the locations it's stored). Going to hit up my buddy that has my old '90. He's a GM tech that's done more than a few columns in his years. I'll see what he thinks. I might start looking for a replacement column in the near future.