Could not have replaced my ignition switch seamlessly on a 1970 340 number matching Cuda without this excellent quality video series. Accolades to Cuda Cody!
Bought 1973 Barricuda a few months ago. The Steering has ALOT of side-to-side "play". I watched ALL 4 of these Steering Column videos and WOW, boy did they help me understand more. I'm fixin to take mine apart and go step-by-step like you did. Really appreciate it and keep 'em comin.
I know this is an old video but the relevance is timeless! I used them to rebuild/ recondition a 70 B body. The similarities are close enough to be helpful. Great series. Thank you Cody!
Thank you so much for this tutorial series! I found it years after you published it...and used it to disassemble, rebuild, reassemble, then re-install the steering column for my 1970 Satellite. Not only for E-Bodies, it would seem!
You made the complexity of steering columns easy to understand. My 1970 Coronet has the shifter on the column. I had sent it to "IdidIt" when it came back I had to reassemble the unit again because of scraping with left and right turns.
Thanks Cody. This tutorial series was a tremendous help, Like several of the other people that have commented. I am just starting to change out my column shift for a rebuildable floor shift power steering unit on my 71' challenger.
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Thanks a bunch Cody for posting these videos! I'm swapping my post shift for floor shift column and I needed to rebuild the coupler. Very valuable in depth instruction of how to do all of this! Thanks!
Excellent video, it helped immensely- thank you for making. I found that reassembling the the lock plate and steering bearing with collar before inserting shaft into the rest of the column was easier for me.
very helpful video, thank you for taking the time to do this. I'm rebuilding my 70 charger column now. Not sure what should be there, or what I am missing, not finding too many people who are helpful, or can tell me what I have vs what parts I need to find. Your staple in the bearing, I believe that is probably a ground connection. I only know that because servicing a large commercial IR compressor one time, there was a filter that had staples holding a rubber seal on the end of it. After the tech. pulled them out, later read the instructions/warning label about DO NOT REMOVE he found them, and popped them back in. Oops. lol
Cody, this is the most unbelievably detailed video for a Challenger that I've seen! This really helped me with replacing My ignition switch and turn signal mechanism. Questions, where can I get a new snap ring for the lockout tooth plate and where can I get the small copper wheel mechanism for the turn signal piece that rides on the brass ring (I have the copper plunger type which wears quickly). thanks! Ernie.
As far as I know know neither of those parts are reproduced at this time. You might be able to find the part at Roseville Moparts by contacting David Radcliffe or the next option would be 2nd hand market (eBay & Junk Yards).
The staple in the rubber retainer for the bearing was on all the originals. It was used to put pressure between the bearing and the cup it sits in to help retain the bearing in place during assembly.
Hi Cody. Just a observation. I was at a Mopar car show over the weekend. I noticed on the e bodies that under the hood , the steering shaft and coupler were not painted black. I also looked at a survivor car and the shaft was rusted unpainted steel.
Hi Cody. Great job, very detailed. Thanks for doing these videos. My question is where can I get a rebuild kit? I've found the gaskets but not the bearing and other parts. Thanks!
Nice video well explained, quick question how you know if your steering shaft was collapsed and what will happen if you leave it like that, or what you need to do to repair it?
Hi Cuda Cody, I’m helping one of my friends rebuild his 73 Cuda. This next week, we will be replacing the ignition lock mechanism and ignition switch. Thanks again for the video series you have posted on RU-vid around the E-Body steering column rebuild, this has been the best guidance I’ve been able to locate for this project. Currently, the ignition key is frozen into the ignition lock mechanism, is this going to make this procedure more difficult? We plan on removing and replacing this old ignition lock mechanism and ignition switch. The question I have is: Does the steering column need to be removed to accomplish this procedure? Looking at your video E-Body Steering Column Part 2 (Disassembly) Cuda & Challenger. At minute 13:00 in this video, it looks like getting the pin out of the steering lock gear (the pin designed to be removed with the Miller C-4113 Tool, which we don’t have) will be extremely difficult to remove without removing the steering column, can this pin be removed without removing the steering column? Thanks again for your guidance and help, Steveo
Cool, I wondered once I install the Column on my Cuda' if there was a certain way to connect the Coupler and Steering Wheel like to line up centered, I can't find anything on the actual install ??
Quick question. ive got a 1970 challenger 4speed manual. Its a real pain to get my car out of reverse and back into reverse. ive checked my linkage and everything underneath the car. Any recommendations if its the column causing the problem?
Hi on your Cuda Steering colunm assembly video, you didnt actually show the Ignition lamp install. I was wondering where the lamp plugs into? Also, I have been restoring certain areas on my '70 Cuda Convertible. I found an under dash Map/Foot light and the ignition switch lamp. I spoke to the original owner and he remembers that there were fender mounted turn signal indicators. However the car doesnt have them now, he told me both fenders were replaced. So, here is the question: I think the car had the A01 light package, but the code is not on the tag! I have one fender tag but the fender has a hole where a second tag might have been? With what I have found of the items in the Light Package do you think this car had the A01 Package? I'm going the get fender mounted turn indicators and install them, do you know where they would plug in? Sorry for all the questions. Steve
Replacing my Challenger steering box and when I pulled it off the rag joint (coupler) was not only in rough shape both shoes were split in half!! I bought a new rag joint and the internals and putting it back together. Question on the small pin that is provided. Do you just pound it in so it bites into the steel shaft itself. Is the hole in the steering shaft simply a guide hole to align with?
I have a 1970 Duster 340 that the ignition switch in the column grenaded. Unfortunately, it took something with it because the hot lead(s) were shorted to the column and I get no power for starting the car, the radio, etc. I think it is the heavy red lead that goes to the fuse box, but no fuses are blown. Where does this lead connect in the engine compartment? Everything in the engine compartment got black spray paint on it, and the only large red lead that I can find goes to the starter solenoid (next to the battery). Can you help me get power into the cab again? Do you have any info on the A body? I have the factory shop manual, but it is no help because it only shows the wiring schematics but not the locations of the actual components. Thank you.
Cody I have a 73 Challenger I removed the steering column because I could see that there were some problems. My column didn’t have a lock out tube, not sure what happened to it. can you use other steering columns for replacement different years and makes?
Looking at putting in a new turn signal in a 71 cuda with fender signals. I see two types of turn signals . one has a 8 plug connector and the other has a 8 plug connector plus a 3 plug connector. . What is the difference?
I've replaced my ignition switch of a column shift automatic on a '70 E body. Since my column is still in the car, how do I replace the bearing, since I can't move the shaft enough to put my hand behind the bearing housing to diffuse the shock of hitting the bearing downwards to seat it, I'm concerned that pushing down will collapse the shaft. The manual says you want to push the shaft up to seat the bearing, instead of pushing the bearing down by itself. Do you have any advice? Would screwing the bearing unit into the column work the bearing downward to reduce collapsing risk?
My 72 floor shift column I took apart didn't have the inner lock out tube, is that because it's a floor shift or has someone been in here before and left it out or lost it?
Your video's helped me quite a bit replacing the ignition switch, the tumbler and the turn signal switch on a 72 Satellite. I am at a bind right now. For some reason I can't get the turn signal switch housing to sit flush against the ignition switch housing. What happened? How do I fix it?
Hey Cody, I rebuilt my column (73 barracuda) trying to install now and the coupler is one inch too short to connect to power steering box. I was very careful with steering shaft to not collapse it. Is there something I’m missing? The brackets under the dash are all adjusted all the way in the direction of the firewall. What am I doing wrong? Will it hurt anything to hammer lower part of shaft down to reach? (Opposite of collapsing it)
hi there, i have a question. my steering wheel on my 72 challenger can be pushed and pulled 1-2 inches in and out. also visible on the coupler to the steering gear. are the pins in the telescoping shaft broken? or can i fix this some other way thanks in advance greetings from germany
Great Video. Has anyone used the lower shift tube bearings that are split so you can do an in car installation? Mine has a little play in the tube. I'm wary about removing the existing one and not being able to get a replacement in correctly, especially with the limited space.
Thanks for these videos! It has been very helpful. I was wondering about the crush can center nut you installed. It looks "new" and I was wondering where you got that? Apparently my column doesn't have an original one....
Dear Sir, Is there a single supplier for a complete or is everything sold on an individual basis. I have a 1970 Coronet 500 Convertible with a 413 .040 over and a Compliment of Two AFB's (2903) on a set of Long Ram Manifolds from a 1960 300 (F)
i here a grinding sound wen i turn from left to right in the steering column and the told me i have a worn bearing in the column, do you think its the one after the signal module ? Thanks
I've not done a 74 column, but it should use the same bearing and it sounds like that's what it could be. You can get to that upper bearing without removing the column from the car. So might be worth checking it out and seeing if it's just a bearing. If you need a bearing, call David at Roseville and let him know you talked to me. He'll work you a good deal on the part you need. www.rosevillemoparts.com/product_info.php/p/bearing-upper-steering-column-shaft-all-62-90/products_id/1794
