how not to fix your mates steering column

**ozbox** · 15-07-2010, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by agr071

Has it been used to slide over another steering shaft at all? (the shaft inside seems to be much bigger).
eg if someone wanted a HZ column in a HG.

no agro..it was in a wb ute body that is on an hx chassis he has purchased as a project that he has been putting back together..he is almost finished when he came across this problem that i couldnt nut out over the phone so he bought the offending item up....when i saw it i went.... :eek::eek:..and then

late this afternoon he rang me and said that the column i sold him would not fit...it was too long..he has sent me some pics but they are at work on my email..i shall post them tomorrow before i reveal why it would not fit...and why that one was so damaged..

**agr071** · 15-07-2010, 10:01 PM

O.K.
Are the shafts going down to the steering box different lengths? (between power steer & standard steer)

**ozbox** · 15-07-2010, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by agr071

O.K.
Are the shafts going down to the steering box different lengths? (between power steer & standard steer)

no power steering and armstrong steering are the same intermediate shaft...

**stickthis** · 15-07-2010, 10:07 PM

Im not going to sleep tonight now. lol. When I go out the shed to take this pic in a min Im going to study the cars I have here haha.

**ozbox** · 15-07-2010, 10:13 PM

yeh it got me at first as i presumed his mate had clobbered the crap out of it while it was in the car to get the top bearing back in..it wasn till i posted this and then he rang me and told me the good column wouldnt bolt up under the dash that i started to think logically... i then aligned the planets and fired up the popcorn maker....

**agr071** · 15-07-2010, 10:14 PM

What model car is it going into?

**ozbox** · 15-07-2010, 10:16 PM

it is a wb ute body with a wb column...but the body is sitting on a hx chassis...but thats irelavent...

**agr071** · 15-07-2010, 10:17 PM

Ahhh, i know.
It's the Auto Elects fault (like you told me on saturday) :D :D :D

**stickthis** · 15-07-2010, 10:21 PM

hmmmmmmmmm auto elec fault? Well I went out the shed. And farked if I know.

**ozbox** · 15-07-2010, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by agr071

Ahhh, i know.
It's the Auto Elects fault (like you told me on saturday) :D :D :D

about time you listened to me....:shifty:

ok...one more clue...if you bolt his bent column back in the car it fits perfect....:eek:
but if you try to bolt the perfect column in its too long and will not bolt up under the dash...