Just using an old thread that is close to my question rather than start a new thread. Today I picked up a steering column from a '82 Camaro for a price much lower than an Ididit column and I was able to replace the "no key lock" with a new cylinder and key for only $10. I even found out that Auto Zone will loan you the necessary tools for just a $15 deposit. So anyway I want to use the Camaro column in my '29 Ford roadster with a Loktar floor shifter on my 700R4. When I got the column apart I found there is a locking mechanism in which a spring-loaded pin shoves up between notches on a plate under the steering wheel. Since I want to have a floor shift, the Camaro column seems close to what I want and I want to keep that locking feature (assuming I can sort out all the pig tail wires). The lock depends on a lever with a grommet at the base of the column and probably is activated by the Camaro shifter in "Park". Perhaps some one out there has adapted such a column to a Loktar shifter? The question is how to pull that lever only when the shifter is in "Park". I do not have the Loktar shifter yet, maybe it would be clear if I could look at the typical Loktar shifter. I have seen pictures of Loktar floor shifts with adjustable rods, but so far I cannot picture how to link to that lever to lock the steering only in "PARK". Anybody out there with an '82 Camaro who can tell me what the installation looks like on the original setup?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder