Cascade Crew

LB985IROC · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject: steering column wobble

ok so my steering column is really loose it wobles all over form jjust about the tit joint is it fixabe or do i need a whoe new column?

Xophertony · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:22 am Post subject:

tech article on TGO. there was also a good article in in the november or december 2005 issue of "CAMARO POWER" magazine. i remember reading it at the DMV when i titled my GTA. it had a yellow thirdgen camaro on the cover.

TGO TECH ARTICLE http://www.thirdgen.org/newdesign/tech/steeringcolumn.shtml

good luck

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:53 am Post subject:

Easy repair. If you've never taken a GM Tilt column apart before, get someone who has a little experience. You'll need a steering wheel puller, a couple different sizes of torx bits (and or torx screwdrivers), Phillips screwdriver, a pair of C-clip pliars (needlenose and a screwdriver also will work) and a dose of patience. Behind the turn signal cam there's 4 inverse torx bolts, right on the pivot joint for the tilt mechanisim. One or two may have rattled loose or are flat out missing. My column did that for a while....just be super careful when taking the turnsignal cam loose and ignition switch loose to get to the bolts. Give your self 2-3 hours if you've never done it before. I'd reccomend using Blue Threadlocker on the torx bolts..(to keep em from rattling loose again), but whatever you do DO NOT TAKE ALL OF THE INVERSE TORX BOLTS OUT ALL THE WAY. There's a retainer piece that's threaded you'll lose if you take all of them out, best way is to do two at a time, put the threadlocker on em and tighten em down all the way. If you were a little closer to portland, I could probably help with it.

LB985IROC · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject:

thanx quasi

LB985IROC · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject:

so i screwed up real good
i took it all appart and now i cant get the last part i took off back on then a bunch of the little bearing inside it fell out i dint know until i saw them none of any instructions mentioned them ebing in there i cant get theis to go back together and my useless pos chilton book doesnt tell me anyhting about it i need help bad guys!!!!

Dewey316 · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:52 pm Post subject:

got a picture of what it is that isn't going back together?

LB985IROC · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject:

no i dont havea camera sorry its the metal thing that you had to pull the stupid pins out of

Dewey316 · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject:

if it is just a matter of getting the bearings back in. Coat them in vasaline, and put them back in. The vasaline should keep them in place.

I'm am not exactly sure what you are describing though.

LB985IROC · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject:

sigh i just dont get it i can not get this to go back together im holding liek 10 things together and once wiht 2 hands and i cant get it to fit back together

Xophertony · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject:

there are some good picks in the GMHTP article, i am gonna see if i can find it online for ya.

also, THIS is why i swaped colums when all that was wrong was a switch, everyone said i was doing it the hard way Shocked

ohman... this sucks. i just looked through a bunch of covers of back issues of chavy mags and NONE of them have the yellow RS that was on the cover of the MAG i am thinking of. i also used to have two exploded view diagrams of the colum from a GM parts computer... can't find em....sorry man. i am gonna keep looking but it no look good.

LB985IROC · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject:

yea no shizzle dude was gonna buy a new one but no everyone was telling me it was easier ........damnit

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject:

I seem to remember reading the same article tony.......it was either Chevy High Performance or Super Chevy.........I wanna say like June, July or August of 2004....I remember reading it when I was hanging out with my friend Joel at his house before he went off to Oklahoma for college (so before August of 04).....

Xophertony · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject:

hhmmm... this was when i was at the DMV titling the GTA. must have been a re-print article. they do that all the time.