I just recently sorted out my '68 tilt column
(floor shift) w/walnut wheel. Maybe I can help. If you want to
contact me off line I'll give you my phone number. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kent
'68 Malibu ZZ502/502
ACES #5102
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 4:09
AM
Subject: [Chevelle-list] NEED HELP WITH
TILT COLUMN!
Hello,
Recently I decided I wanted a
tilt wheel column for my
1968 Chevelle. Now the problem is they're
really hard to
find in good shape and so I bought one from Gary's
Steer-
ing Column Restoration in Koon Kreek, TX for $419. total
shipped
and everything all rebuilt, even came with cancel
cam and a new tilt
lever.
Now the bad part was the wires were all backwards on
the
column's harness so every one of the wires had to be re-
moved and
reattached to their rightful electrical ends.
Then everything was
working good and I bolted on a Grant
Steering Wheel I had sitting
around. That because the '68
Walnut Steering Wheel I had bought on
eBay! and I was
having <it> restored at (another "Gary's") Gary's
Steering
Wheel Restoration in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The Grant
fit
right on the new column and I waited, and still drove my
Chevelle
around. Easy waiting that way!
Just yesterday the Origional
Walnut Steering Wheel arrives
but then it doesn't fit. Apparently the
origional wood wheel
hub for this steering wheel is correct<---No chance
it can't
be!
This hub and subsequent hubs I looked at all being the
same
and recessed 3/8's of an inch under the edge and flat across.
I
looked at a few pictures I had on file of '68 tilt column I saw
being sold
on e-Bay! and this looks identical, but none of my
pictures shows the
locking plate on the end of the column
shaft.
Then I call Gary's
(The one in Texas!) and I explain the locking
plate (the thing-a-ma-bob
with the three holes in it) is sticking
an inch and a half out of the bell
housing of the steering column
and the bottom of the steering wheel hub is
only recessed a
quarter inch = No-can-put-together-scenario, and so I
said,
"Whatsupwithat!!?"
Guy says he needs a picture but doesn't
have anybody there
with internet. Then I ask him "Can locking plate
be taken off
the shaft by a puller?"
He then says that he wasn't
aware '68's had a locking plate.
I tell him this was sent by his
company and was very explicitly
stated that it's a completely rebuilt 1968
tilt column for Chevelle.
That doesn't surprise me but still I tell him
that this appears to
be a 1968 floor shifted GM steering column in all ways
except
the locking plate.
Can anybody tell me, "Can I just take this
off?" Or do I have to
go and remove and reship this entire column
back to Gary's?
Can anyone tell me?
HELP!
--J.G.
Warburton
'68 Chevelle SS
CVT
A.C.E.S. # 6448
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