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steering column rubbing firewall 120-130

looks like my steering column may have been rubbing on the firewall opening enough to elongate the opening into an olblong, although the column seems to have no wear on it

it does however band against the wall when going over bumps

I have loosened the nuts that hold the top of the steering to the dash and tried moving it over and putting in a new coupling in the shaft but it still seems to bend toward the passenger side

do I need to push all the section together to make it shorter perhaps?








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    steering column rubbing firewall 120-130

    the frame is bad!the unibody is hanging from the firewall. if you jack the body up slowly in the front only you will see that the steering shaft will go back into the center of the hole. i have fixed many of those. the inner fenders are most likely rotted away or have been repair without jacking the body into place. just start over while the body is up where it belongs








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    steering column rubbing firewall 120-130

    Mine was doing this when I bought it. I have a 67.5 so I have the later two piece collapsable steering column. The previous owner had taken the column apart and taken the coupler off one of the shafts. Somehow when they put it back together they didn't put the coupler on the shaft in the correct orientation to make the offsets work correctly. This caused the rubbing on the firewall which elongated the hole. I had to take out the steering box and take apart the shaft and put it back together correctly.







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