1980 Camaro Steering Column Rebuild, 3 of 4 - Assembly 

Thanks, you made my day!

A success story - awesome!

My favorite part of making these is hearing the "how it went" stories, so thanks! Horn parts... to be honest I'm not 100% sure where in the video you're referring to. Maybe @38:13? At that point Dylan is reinstalling a turn signal cam he first installed as its own project (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-57E0VrOXHg0.htmlsi=EfbsUJ19CEIIz7S3). The wire sticking out of the turn signal cam is for the horn. You can see how it gets used in the steering wheel upgrade video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MChdj8Ye4Rw.htmlsi=OENjXz7G5x5GzHIp). The exact part numbers we used can be found the description of each video. That way you can shop around and find the best deal. If anyone asks where I got a specific part, I'll answer the question, but in general I'm not going to promote any vendor.

Lo siento, no sé la respuesta a eso.

Thanks for the feedback - the sole purpose of this channel is to help people, and it's always great to hear when it did. The column rebuild in the video was our first too, so I'm hardly an expert. But I will still give my opinion: you don't want any gap between the inner race and the shaft, so a fit that requires a little tapping sounds perfect to me. Maybe the old one stretched a little or maybe it was just made a tiny bit bigger in the first place.

Don't know if I can help, but I'll try. Is the problem that your switch (the electrical switch) is in the Accessory position when the key is in the Off position? Since Accessory is right next to Off, maybe the position of the electrical switch just needs to be adjusted. They way it mounts allows a certain amount of movement, either sliding up or down on the column. That's the first thing I would check.

@@WorkinOnIt hey, I got that fixed thank you so much for responding though. Do you know how to remove the gauges? I’m trying to fix my speedometer and am having trouble getting that off

The Rack Kit (listed under Parts Used in the video description) has the bearings inside the column. You can get that kit several places. Without any inside information on quality, we just tried to find the best deal. Ended up buying it on Amazon, but I know it's sold on eBay and probably many other places. The bearing at the very bottom of the column is the Lower Steering Column Bearing Assembly.

@@WorkinOnIt Just to make sure I understand, does it matter that one of the bearings includes an inside race and not both? Also, do you have any tips on how you removed your original outer races? I was going to try just prying them out with a flathead. Thanks for posting this video, extremely helpful rebuilding my 81-Z column.

@@justin________7477 Thanks for the questions. The outside-race-only bearing mounts on the bottom of the aluminum hub. If you look at the shaft, just above the pivot, you can see that there's an inside race that is effectively permanent (very hard to get off and you're not supposed to). We briefly discuss it in our teardown video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AfemEtp1x0E.html. To see how we removed the outer races, check out our teardown video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AfemEtp1x0E.html. It's always great to hear that a video was helpful - thanks for the feedback!

@@WorkinOnIt Awesome, thanks for that info! And thanks for posting these videos.