70 RR Steering Column Help

[rebel513r]

Here is a pic of my 70 steering column shaft in the position it was in when I drilled out the plastic filling the holes. You can see where my drill hit the inner shaft. This car was in an accident many years ago. Would the correct position of the shaft be like the bottom pic? Lined up with the plastic on the shaft?

 

[crank]

you check the length before you took it apart?manual or power?shouldn't the top hole in the bottom piece line up with your drill mark?

 

[rebel513r]

you check the length before you took it apart?manual or power?shouldn't the top hole in the bottom piece line up with your drill mark?

I did not measure it. Yes it lined up with my drill mark when I took it apart but the plastic in the holes would not be connected to anything. Didn't they inject the plastic through the holes and into the void in the center shaft? That way there would be a small plastic "pin" keeping it from collapsing.

 

[crank]

yes they do fill the void but now that i think about it,the shaft may have been collapsed already.iirc,70 should be 40 3/4" for p/s & 43 3/4 for manual.

 

[crank]

41 3/4 or 44 3/4.a lot of times i can go by the rust line on the top piece also.

 

[rebel513r]

it was fixed after the accident and drove for 10 more years that way so its hard to say by the rust line. its ps and it measures end to end 40 3/4 to where my drill marks came out and it would be 41 3/4 if the holes lined up in the center of the voids on the internal shaft.