79-83 manual tilt column rebuild

[78customdeluxe]

Last part. So like I said, you know how hard it is to find a manual tilt. I did use all new electronics, lock cylinder, and tried new bearings. So depending on where you see a rebuilt column, you are looking at $700-$1700 dollars. The cheaper ones I saw, they wanted a core, which obviously you don't have if you are wanting to put one in. I did this for about $350, plus I have TONS of extra parts left over. If you wanted to, you could just take the lower bowl off of your old column, and buy a new lower bowl and slide on there, but you won't have the key lock, but you also won't have the huge bulge from the automatic shifter. If you are looking for a manual column to use parts from. The upper tube on up is the same for pretty much anything manual GM, s10, camaro, or full size truck. Now I don't know about things such as the jeeps and other chrysler products that used the saginaw columns like the dodge pickups, if they had the same upper tube length and mounting bolt dimensions as gm's to get one from there, but MOST all the other parts are the same. Now I will add in some other information to the auto only guys who might be converting from a turbo 350 or 400, to a 700r4 or 4l60e/4l80e. You see that plate on the lower pivot that has the notches in it? there is an extra notch in the 4 speed compared to the 3 speed, so that's why you can't get into 1st gear correctly. You should be able to get that from at least any gm car with the saginaw column, so it includes even front wheel drive cars. You can use all the information I gave to build a late, 84-91 column too, you'll just have to add the extra steps for the wiper and dimmer switch parts. Well here is pictures of the lower bearing, and the completed column(minus the correct tilt lever that I bought and couldn't find, so I had to throw the black one from the s10 column on it...) Oh, paint I used SEM Trim Black on it to dye the plastic, and actually the metal parts below the dash I used John Deere Blitz Black because it didn't seem like the Sem liked the metal parts that well, but honestly its pretty much a perfect match. Any question or comments, just let me know, and thanks for your patience and thanks for reading everything, just trying to help people find things that are hard to come by anymore.