Shift collar replacement

[bbj3316]

I have a 1982, GMC, pickup. The shift collar has gotten broken during the rebuild and will have to be replaced. It us a tilt steering column as so far I cannot find any "how to" video on a step by step replacement of this collar. It holds the shift and goes around the column.

[87 STEPPER]

Well I have done this job many many years ago like b4 the Internet was around so no pic's or vid's here. Sorry.

What I can tell you is this is a very Involved job and if your experience level is so,so you may not wanna do this job but if you think you can than what I would tell ya to do is go to a local U PICK N PULL junk yard and take 1 or 2 of 'em apart and see what it takes to do it and if u bust somethin' so what! it's not your's

Also you r gonna want to have the proper tools like a steering wheel puller and the lock plate depresser tool to remove the snap ring that hold's it on the shaft other than that it's just normal hand tools from there.

1 other thing cuz you have a tilt column there is a round button lookin thing at the top with a square hole in it this is what holds the spring in place for the tilt feature a 1/4" extension will not fit it so use a common screwdriver blade at a diagonal and push in on it real hard and turn a 1/4 turn can't remember what way to turn sorry and the spring will now come out be careful it has a heavy preload on it.
So get 2 it!
Good luck.

[tucsonjwt]

Just a word of caution - take a good look at the webbing inside of the shift bowl before you get one from the pick and pull. There was a problem with the aluminum shift bowls in the late 1970s.

I worked at the plant where the first aluminum shift bowls were cast and many if not most of the bowls had cracked webbing inside the bowls. Some were also out of round. This had to do with aluminum being more fragile than the heavy zinc die cast shift bowls they replaced. I think the problem was resolved by more careful handling and a change in the casting process.

GM went to a lot of aluminum parts to reduce weight for fuel economy in the late 1970s, starting with the "downsizing" of the cars in 1977 (compare a 1976 to a 1977 Chevy Impala and you will see the difference.)