Steering column - replacement
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Laughing Gas
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Steering column - replacement
Hey all, I need to pick y'alls brains a bit.
earlier this month, my steering column started squeaking, did a little diagnosis and found that one of my bearing needed to be replaced or packed with grease. Here is the awesome part, I pulled it out, entirely. Sprayed a little lube in there to see if it was the upper (needed to know which was the issue), it was the upper. I put it back in and reconnected almost everything, except the last two bolts up top. One went in fine, the other, did not. I broke the mounting cast for it. Leaving my left side unsecured. I failed to notice a hairline crack in that side.
Note: my truck is a manual.
So, what I need to know is: can I pull a steering column and just replace that housing as well as the bearings? Do I need to pull a full one, check the bearing and put it in? Or does someone make a remanfactured column?
Any other options? What has been y'alls experience with this?
Thanks!
earlier this month, my steering column started squeaking, did a little diagnosis and found that one of my bearing needed to be replaced or packed with grease. Here is the awesome part, I pulled it out, entirely. Sprayed a little lube in there to see if it was the upper (needed to know which was the issue), it was the upper. I put it back in and reconnected almost everything, except the last two bolts up top. One went in fine, the other, did not. I broke the mounting cast for it. Leaving my left side unsecured. I failed to notice a hairline crack in that side.
Note: my truck is a manual.
So, what I need to know is: can I pull a steering column and just replace that housing as well as the bearings? Do I need to pull a full one, check the bearing and put it in? Or does someone make a remanfactured column?
Any other options? What has been y'alls experience with this?
Thanks!
Cargo Master
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From: Ideeho
I don't know about a reman.........but head to your local wrecking yard. I just swapped out my non tilt for a tilt column yesterday. I swapped all the electrical onto the tilt column from my original. If you just want to replace the bearings......they should be still available from Ford. I cant verify that but I do know that the bearings for a '78 manual transmission tilt column are still available from them and that is probably the rarest tilt column around LOL
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