loose steering wheel
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loose steering wheel
I have a 91 f150 with a steering wheel that I can move several inches up and to the left. I have taken the casing off of the steering column and tightened up every bolt I could find. Unfortunately, this did not help, the truck does not have tilt steering. The guy I bought the truck from was an old man and he didn't like that the ford logo on the steering wheel was not perfectly aligned so he tried to adjust the steering wheel. He did not remember exactly what he did but he has the steering wheel all screwed up.
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loose steering wheel
This may sound stupid, but did you pull the steering wheel itself off and re align it and then put it back on torqued to specs? The splines may be screwed up on the shaft or the wheel.
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Several inches? Yikes. Mine had some slop in it a while ago, but not several inches- I ended up replacing the two upper bearings in the column and a few other little things that came as a kit- total was about 25 bucks- from Ford! 
Mine's a no-tilt too, so you might check into that.
Mine's a no-tilt too, so you might check into that.
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Ok I am an idiot! This is my first Ford product and I thought that I did not have tilt steering. However, my uncle was looking at the truck and he showed me that it did. He mentioned that inside the steering column there is some clamp for the tilt steering that gets loose from use. He thought he heard someone say that you could drill a hole in the steering column and you could see the hex bolt that needed to be tightened. Let me know if anyone has ever heard of this, and if so where in the column would I need to drill.
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How hard was the rebuild for the steering column. Mine is very bad I actually had the bearings falling out the other day when I took it apart. Where did you find the information on how to rebuild it. I got a far as taking off the steering wheel and the blinker assembly. After that I didn't want to touch anything until I had the parts of a replacement. I saw where it is a spring and a clip that holds that in. The spring also come out the back of the box that appear to hold the bearings.
How hard was the rebuild for the steering column. Mine is very bad I actually had the bearings falling out the other day when I took it apart. Where did you find the information on how to rebuild it. I got a far as taking off the steering wheel and the blinker assembly. After that I didn't want to touch anything until I had the parts of a replacement. I saw where it is a spring and a clip that holds that in. The spring also come out the back of the box that appear to hold the bearings.
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