Thread: Chev tilt column in Model A

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Well Brian you are great with the pictures! The "lever" that mystifies me is shown on your column at the extreme left of your picture just next to the cord with the 115 vac plug. I have answered your question about a sleeve from Speedway. Just use some sort of marking pencil on the steering wheel and the turn-signal return disk relative to the splines on the shaft before you take them off if you are replacing the turn signal switch. I was able to rent the necessary compression plate tool from AUTO ZONE with a $15 deposit that is refunded when I return the tool. Before that I made a $15 deposit on a steering wheel puller and that was refunded when I returned the puller. In addition, AUTO ZONE has all the plastic sockets and wiring pigtails available, although NAPA said I would have to get them from a junk yard! After all of this messing around I still do not know if the distance of my non-tilt wheel from the firewall is reasonable so as to use the existing bulkhead mounting plate welded to the bottom of my column. It looks OK in the range of 28-30 inches so I think I can make it work by using a suitable steering wheel dish distance and/or moving the seat in or out. Let me know if you understand the function of that lever at the bottom of the column. It sure seems as if Henry Rifle is a good guy to know as well because he has done just about everything before and is near to my location even though there are many other experts on this Forum. Eventually I hope to visit him and/or take some pictures of my own, but in my garage I am usually scratching my head and not real proud of what I have so far, so thanks much for a lot of help from him too. Looking again at Brian's picture and at the Speedway calalog it looks to me that the sleeve PN 910-32600, $21.95 will cover the shifter hole but not cover the tilt connection which is above the shifter. If Brian says the lever at the bottom of the column is to connect to the stick trans and mine has the same lever for a floor shift version there must be some connection to the trans for the automatic as well; probably the folks a Lokar can answer this question and I will try them next week.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder