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I am starting a steering column swap, to a 1979 tilt steering, and need help finding parts, like the 2 upper bearings, the standard shift collar (4 on the floor, not automatic), and the turn signal guts... any help will be appreciated...
I am starting a steering column swap, to a 1979 tilt steering, and need help finding parts, like the 2 upper bearings, the standard shift collar (4 on the floor, not automatic), and the turn signal guts... any help will be appreciated...
Baja
What is the column from? There's no shift collar w/a 4 speed, an "extension" takes its place. There's only one upper bearing, there's another at the bottom of the column.
When I rebuilt my tilt wheel column 4+ years ago, I replaced the 2 bearings in the upper (tilt) end and the one bearing at the lower end of the tube. There are THREE bearings in a tilt wheel column.
Where did you find the bearings? I need all three.
and to ND, there are 2 small bearings in the tilt head, and one at the bottom of the column. I was told at the JY that it was from a 78/79 Ford, F250, and it had the automatic shift collar just under the tilt head. Since my truck is a 4 speed, on the floor, I will not be using the automatic shift collar, nor the shift tube which runs inside the steering column, or the auto shift lever. I believe that on the standard trans trucks, with the tilt steering, there is a reducer bell, that joins the column to the lower collar of the tilt head.
When I look on Ebay, for 79 Ford tilt steering, I see some chrome jobs, with tilt, for standard shift trucks, and I can see a reducer bell, which reduces the diameter of the tilt head down to the diameter of the shift column...I am thinking that Ford must have done some such a thing to mate the two different diameters...?
two tilt head bearings shown, in position, and the empty column at the bottom where the lower bearing should be?? Any help with where I can acquire them will be greatly appreciated...
No numbers, but next time I go to town (its a long way), I will take them with me and see... meanwhile.. still looking, and hopefully someone has been down this trail before me.. and has some info...
I finished the reassembly of the tilt steering from the JY in San Jose del Cabo, Baja. I am still not sure what it came out of, but the old JY guy said that it was a '79 Ford, but so far, I cannot be sure.
The two tilt head bearings, an upper and lower, which were different sizes of caged and sealed ball bearings, turned out after some persuasion, to be passable for use, so I reinstalled them with some liberal application of bearing grease.
Since, my truck is a standard shift, NP 435, F250, 4x4, I did not reassemble the automatic shift collar (it was cracked anyway), and you can see the space for the missing auto shift collar. I also did not reassemble the auto shift tube, but used instead, a 3/4" PVC pipe, cut to length, and inserted over the steel inner steering shaft, to replace the auto shift tube.
Since my JY tilt steering was missing the lower column bearing, and none are available here in Baja, I used my lathe, and made a hard plastic insert, as a temporary bushing, until I can return to the "Land of Plenty", and bring back the actual replacement... new.
Hope my photos can help someone identify what I actually have, and perhaps lead me to the standard shift collar, to replace the auto shift collar.
Thanks, Baja hard plastic bushing in the lower end of the column
