'70 Steering Column Conversion Man. to Power?

[PurpleBeeper]

I've got a '70 Roadrunner manual steering car & I want to put in power steering. I have a '70 Satelite column-shift power steering console (no key). I want to install a new ignition/door lock set anyway.

Can I swap the bearing housing, lock housing & shift housing from my manual steering column onto the power steering column? Can I do this without special tools?

Besides the steering box, pump, hoses, pulley(s), belt and pump bracket, do I need anything else to make this swap?

Thanks Everyone!

 

[440roadrunner]

YOU are a guy in need of a shop manual:

http://www.mymopar.com/downloads/servicemanuals/1970_Plymouth_Service_Manual.zip

I did the opposite of this in 1972. Hell I couldn't begin to remember....................

 

[PurpleBeeper]

YOU are a guy in need of a shop manual:

http://www.mymopar.com/downloads/servicemanuals/1970_Plymouth_Service_Manual.zip

I did the opposite of this in 1972. Hell I couldn't begin to remember....................

I've got a factory 1970 shop manual and "on paper" it looks like I can make this switch, but I'd hate to pull the guts out of two steering columns and find out theres one little part that keeps it from working. :edgy:

I'd rather swap all at once with a 4-spd/console steering column but in the service manual it looks like I have to gut the column anyway to change the ignition lock. I mean, it doesn't "look" any harder to make the conversion than to put in a new ignition lock.

 

[A383Wing]

you can just tap the inner column shaft that connects to the manual box up into the outer shaft and use the column you have now....

Manual & power steering columns were the same starting in 1967

Bryan

 

[PurpleBeeper]

Hey Bryan,
Can you please provide more detail? It "looks" like the power steering shaft is shorter than the manual steering shaft and it doesn't "look" like it "telescopes".

 

[Budnicks]

Hey Bryan,
Can you please provide more detail? It "looks" like the power steering shaft is shorter than the manual steering shaft and it doesn't "look" like it "telescopes".

Power steering column shafts are shorter than a manual steering column shafts buy several inches {I think 3"-4"s} on 68-70 B-Bodies anyway... They require an adapter, like below go from Power to manual, so there is a significant difference in length, as for the swapping shafts, from one to another housing on different years, I don't have a clue...

 

[mguesto]

I am interested in finding out how you made out on this? I have my 69 GTX i want to do the same thing to.

I have all the parts to do my converstion from manual to power but have not planned on doing it till over the winter.
I did get a RR column from Ebay and took out the shaft to put into my manual column. I still have to get the connector
bushing from the box to the shaft.

I would like to hear if you ran into any troubles doing this.

thanks
Matt

 

[Chuck Melton]

I have a 68 Charger shell. I just bought a column from a 67 coronet RT and would like to know where I can get instructions on how to disassemble and reassemble this column. Plus where do you purchase replacement parts for this?