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04-23-2006, 06:19 PM | #1 |
Big Block
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Durham, N.C.
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Installed tilt column today.
Not a big job. But I now have a smooth shifting column. The original column's upper bearing was shot. I had pulled a tilt column out of a truck about 4 years ago. I sold the truck and kept the tilt column. The column had been painted blue. I'm so lazy, it's taken me 4 years to get around to painting it black. Painted it last weekend and installed it this afternoon. What a difference. Now I don't have to use two hands to put it gear. The old column would bind so bad when shifting into park I had to use one hand to hold the collar on the column and the other to shift it into park. It's a spray can job, It's not great but the column shifts like a new one.
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04-23-2006, 07:11 PM | #2 |
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Re: Installed tilt column today.
Hey looks great. Was that an original truck column or a converted van column.
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04-23-2006, 08:27 PM | #3 |
Big Block
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Re: Installed tilt column today.
It was a factory 71 chevy truck tilt column. Make the swap a piece of cake.
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04-23-2006, 08:47 PM | #4 |
The LuvShack Garage
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Re: Installed tilt column today.
Steering wheel looks real familiar also
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04-23-2006, 09:10 PM | #5 |
Big Block
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Re: Installed tilt column today.
The steering wheel is from a late 70's Buick Skyhawk (Does any one remember them?) I replaced the original Buick horn button with the chevy horn button. I bought two of them in San Diego, California back in 1990 for $15.00 each at Ecology Auto Salvage. There are a bunch of auto wrecking yards down on the border.
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04-24-2006, 12:29 AM | #6 |
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Re: Installed tilt column today.
Looks good. I love the tilt in my truck. I have a tilt stashed for either the trazer or the blazer, I haven't decided which.
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04-24-2006, 10:26 AM | #7 |
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Re: Installed tilt column today.
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04-24-2006, 07:02 PM | #8 |
Big Block
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Re: Installed tilt column today.
I have a factory tach dash to install now. I bought a 72 4x4 Suburban in 1996 it was a 4spd with factory tach. I drove it until 2000 and sold it . But before I did I removed it to use in a later project. Well its going on 6 years I guess it time to install it in the blazer. I bought the Blazer in Oct of 2000. As you can see I don't get in a rush to get things done. That's just another way of saying how lazy I am. I'm not that lazy but it is hard to work on a gravel driveway because your 2 car garage is so full of junk you can't work in it. When we move there will be a workshop to work in.
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