elle88

I suspect damage at coupling spheres of my 69 tilt tele steering column .i feel a kind of play and i cant find any other source other than that. Anybody has performed the replacement of the coupling spheres? How difficult to dismsntle the column? I downloaded jim shea papers and it seems quite a difficult job

buffaloc3

Did it on my 76. Put a lot of time aside for it and a large area for all the parts.

0Willcox Corvette

It's usually not the spheres that wear out. It's usually the four bolts that hold the lower column to the tube. Or as what seems to be showing up more and more the tube itself as shown in the picture below.

The repair is not that hard, and Jim Shea has plenty of info on how to help you work through this, and there are plenty here that have rode this horse before.

elle88

uhmm...i suppose that i have to remove the whole steering column from the car .right? no way to fix the problem leaving the column installed and removing parts starting from the steering wheel side?

terrys6t8roadster

the play in my 69 t/t turned out to be the upper bearing failure. PITA. also need tool for removal & install of upper lock ring. T

vbgod1

Can all be done from the top. It will take some special tools the average guy would not have just laying in his box, through. Off the top of my head, a way to pull steering wheel when it has tele. Pull tilt pins from both sides. Lock plate spring compressor... Yada

0Willcox Corvette

It's too easy to pull this column from the car.

You'll need this tool and you'll need to fabricate the locking stud as shown in the picture below.



Here is a help page from our web site on how to pull the column.