Collapsed steering shaft? Help!

DARTLARRY said

The colum is not junk. Pull the colum from the car put it in a vise and pull the bottom of the shaft out far enough to line up the two holes in the center of the shaft. once the two holes are lined up, you can insert a brass pin through the two holes. In case of an accident the brass pin will shear off, and allow the colum to collapse as the factory intended. Once this is done you can install the shaft and it should fit fine.

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I would NOT mess with factory engineered safety features, but that's just me. When I collapsed a steering shaft I was working on, I found another one. Easy to shear those pins, does not take much. I'd rather have peace of mind than have the idea that if I got rammed by some moron yammering on a cell phone the shaft would likely impale me to the back seat.

Have you measured the shear point of brass and whether it will behave the same way as the delrin in an impact?

Good luck with that. :rolleyes: