Steering Column
 

I took the steering column out of the 4 digit to clean it up and to my surprise, this is what I found. It doesn't look home made on the dash, but it's all wrong, or is it?

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The metal tube section has been cut and only meets the bottom of the dash? I am stumped on this because it does not look like that dash has been jimmy rigged. But you can only use that steering column. Here it is but it's soaking in cleaner. Any ideas?

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Someone has hacked it up. Even the pics I have of the field test versions have a column that goes through the dash and a grommet just like the production versions. Yep..... you need another column.

Thanks Johnathon, but another column will not work? It won't fit through the dash? I tried with a spare I have. That piece that sits on top of the column takes up the difference where a normal column would just fit through the dash. But that dash is smaller then the column?:bash2::bash2::bash2:

Ronnie that piece looks like it was riveted in at 6 o'clock. Drill it out and it will fall out more than likely

:IH Trusted Hand:

What he said.you gotta wonder about those po mods

I agree, a weird po mod, yes drill it out.

Mike's right, take that piece out of the dash and get a new tube (and rubber) for your column and all should be well.

I guess I need to just take the dash completely out and look at the bottom of it. It doesn't look like it has rivets, but that one at 6 o'clock? Would one rivet hold what ever they did? I will never find a dash without the hole in the side like the later models.:bash2::bash2::bash2: I will drill it out today and see if it will come out. I wonder why they did this?