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 Posted: 06-13-2005 08:36 pm
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Ron Earp



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Location: Cary, North Carolina USA
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 It went through with about the same difficulty as normal - which is to say a huge pain in the butt.  But, it is on, steers just fine - there is a gap there on the 4 into 1 header, and the wrap only took about 1/8" clearance out of the gap, so there is enough room.

We found that the best way to thread the shaft from the column, through the header, and into the rack is to remove the steering column completely. Then, pull the short shaft out of the end of the column, attach to the upper knunckle to the short shaft, then put the column back on. If you take off the plastic shield on the lower part of the column it makes life easy for getting the two pieces inside the shaft mated together. At any rate, it is on and it is easy for me to remove the column etc. since all that stuff under the dash on my car is gone.

That was the hardest part of the entire engine/tranny install. Engine and tranny went in with about 45 mintues work, the steering shaft took 3 hours.

R