Anyone have the little dowel pin fall out of the upper ignition actuator? My truck would start but not turn off. I was expecting to have one of the two plastic parts broken, but when I got the steering column apart all I found was that the little dowel pin fell out.

I've glued it back in an hopefully it will go another 202K before breaking again.

 

that is what usually breaks on them. the part is only around $15

 

Can you tell me what part this is? Mine has the same issue right now

 

Its like the pin that went between the two plastic pieces that are in the very top of the column fell out

 

Can you post a pic rob i might have what you need.

 

I will post a video of it when im home tonight, thanks

 

Heres a video I took of it and put on photobucket. Hope it helps a little more than a picture lol. Click on the picture and it will take you to the video.

 

 

I don't know if this will help any or not......

exploded view for the 1995 Ford F250 tilt | Steering Column Services

 

Thats what it looks like inside there rob. It does have a lil pin in there. If yours fell out i would say you could find the right size roll pin to go in there. Or if that plastic piece is broke i can take it out and send it to you. Let me know what you need.

 

Bill it took rob having this problem for me to take that apart and get that shaft out i needing. Hopefully rob can benefit from that coloum too.

 

Yep, that would be great! Just pass it on LOL!!

 

Wow, thats where the problem lies, for sure. I will pull it apart when i have some time and see exactly whats going on. I put it back together and just left the swith hanging down below the dash. Makes me want a push start even more lol!
How hard was it to get into the plastic pieces? It looks to me you have to remove a ton of stuff to get at it.

 

Thanks for posting this Bill, maybe ill answer my own question about how to get in there and read the manual

 

The hardest part was getting the snap ring off the shaft with no snap ring pliers. There are two star bolts on the side, and you have to ajust the tilt and pull the coulom apart at the same time. Make sure you turn your key at the same time to. The plastic piece has gears on it and runs on the key cyl.