Project: '72 Family Hauler

[shearjs]

Originally Posted by ajgriffin

How difficult was it to rebuild the steering column? I'm thinking of redoing mine, but curious how much it costs in time and parts. I think 70shortfleet rebuilds them and is pretty reasonable on pricing, so I'm weighing the options.

It was not overly difficult. I downloaded and printed the pages out of the service manual and followed those for disassembly and reassembly. The only special tools I bought were a deep socket to remove the nyloc nut that holds the steering shaft into the tilt housing and a couple of machine screws to use with a socket as a puller for the tilt pins. I reused the original bearings, but obviously greased them generously. I replaced the pointer, indicator dial, nss, firewall grommet, dash grommet, lower bearing retainer and shift arm for a total of $125 or so. I’ll take a couple pictures tonight of the finished column.