1969 Valiant steering housing loose
I found a diagram I’d missed before in the manual that helped a little to show me what the innards looked like and how they are attached.
The real issue though was that whoever was in there before buggered it all up. I got the bearing housing off the column. They must have lost most of the bolts and screws. The turn signal switch had three different non-matching screws and the housing is supposed to be fastened to the column with two special square headed bolts that lock into slots in the column. As you tighten them, they slide up a ramp and into the slots on the column. One of them was replaced with a regular hex head bolt. It looks like it's been on both sides in the past because both of the channels for the square heads are all mucked up. The hex head doesn’t slide like it’s supposed to. The shaft isn’t centered in the tube either. There’s a lot of downward pressure on it.
It looks like the two flanges coming up that the two square heads are supposed to attach to are way out of center too. (Bottom photo)
One of these jobs that never ends because of issues you keep finding. I was just doing electrical for him but I can’t turn it back over to him knowing there’s a problem in the steering column.
I found a diagram I’d missed before in the manual that helped a little to show me what the innards looked like and how they are attached.
The real issue though was that whoever was in there before buggered it all up. I got the bearing housing off the column. They must have lost most of the bolts and screws. The turn signal switch had three different non-matching screws and the housing is supposed to be fastened to the column with two special square headed bolts that lock into slots in the column. As you tighten them, they slide up a ramp and into the slots on the column. One of them was replaced with a regular hex head bolt. It looks like it's been on both sides in the past because both of the channels for the square heads are all mucked up. The hex head doesn’t slide like it’s supposed to. The shaft isn’t centered in the tube either. There’s a lot of downward pressure on it.
It looks like the two flanges coming up that the two square heads are supposed to attach to are way out of center too. (Bottom photo)
One of these jobs that never ends because of issues you keep finding. I was just doing electrical for him but I can’t turn it back over to him knowing there’s a problem in the steering column.
