steering column question *DELETED*

[hotrod 84 lesabre]

Post deleted by hotrod 84 lesabre

[Rad51Special]

The wiring is the least of your problems. You can call Ron Francis Wire Works in Chester, PA (must have a website or something). That is the easy part. The length of the column likely won't be the same. Why are you replacing your LeSabre column anyway?

pwilkens@herc.com

[NTX5467]

It might be that the wiring connectors will be the same for both columns, as was discovered when a friend was prepping a '72 Monte Carlo column for installation in his '55 Chevy Nomad--even the same color codes, but with different connectors in that situation.

One thing to take note of is where the dimmer switch is or is not on each column. Seems like the LeSabre column will be on the turn signal lever and the other one will be on the floor. Then there's the wiper switch wiring too!

If the column being replaced has what I call the "Tilt-A-Way" or "Thunerbird Syndrome", due to looseness in the column due to the looseness of certain bolts or the failure or a related pot metal casting, then that's repairable by people who know how to repair those things. Typically, it requires disassembly of the column below the tilt joint, so you HAVE to know what you're doing with that repair. If the long bolts below that are loose, they can be retorqued. If the related pot metal casting has cracked, then it will need to be replaced. When the steering wheel is allowed to pop up against the "bump stop" (the upper part of that pot metal casting), it eventually will crack from the force as it is somewhat thin in that area.

On those castings, GM had a multitude of them for particular applications, but there can be more interchanges with them than the GM part number proliferation might suggest. Might even be somebody that advertises in your local paper that has a repair service to repair those columns too.

Just some thoughts,

NTX5467