Removing ignition cylinder 70 Chev column

[Pantera]

They could be distant relations...



Actually, Pantera = FORD It is my screen name on the Valkyriders motorcycle forum. It was the first name I could come up with to use as a distincitive nickname.

I have a '73 blue Pantera, that I have owned and bought from the original owner in '76. In fact he was the owner of the tulsa dragstrip back about that time. It had 6,800 mi on it and wanted it out of the house because his 15 1/2 yr old son was taking it out on joy rides. He was afraid that he would have killed himself in it. I was more than glad to take it off his hands. I even got the window sticker with it. It has 20,000 mi on it now. Next to my motion cars that was the best $5,600 I spent.

Now back to the question on the collum repairs. I have fixed a bunch of broken steering collum's when someone tried to steal a vette. I ran a repair/Bodyshop for vettes back in 1979-87.

In fact doing that made me a bunch of money cause the people were scared that the thieves would come back and would sell me their car cheap just to get it gone before someone did steal it.

After you spend a afternoon in the hot summer working on one of these collums while still in the car, you get to where you know how to do that job in your sleep. Of course I can do it a lot easier than to tell someone how to do it. There are lots of little tricks/shortcuts to doing it.

The damm turn signal switch is a pain to work around, and it has to move out of the way to get to the bolts below it. This is pretty much the same procedure to tighten the ujoint when the Tilt collum is loose. This is a common problem on older 69 and up cars where the owner used the collum to pull their weight up when they get into or out of the car.



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