MO 67-72 Chevy Truck Automatic Tilt Steering Column

[Don D]

Originally Posted by 58 Special

As I've stated before. If you drill out the intermediate collapsible shaft and collapse it you have removed the safety feature that the collapsible shaft offers you. Correct way is to pull it apart. Shorten the collapsible shaft by 2 inches redrill and reinstall plastic shear pins.

Doing it that way is still a lot work & you still have to to address the neutral safety switch not being in the correct place on the tube & getting the upper, lower rubber seals & retainer on the main tube. I found it just as easy to disassemble the column, send the splined shaft to a machine shop where they cut it to the correct length & cut new splines on it. Now you can move the neutral safety switch location to the correct place & make the correct tab on the shift tube for the correct truck neutral safety switch. You can make the van column look identical to an original truck column.
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