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Yes, the old one has the u clip and the new one has the spring.



I thought it was a ground but now I think its to keep the tele shaft from falling out the bottom into the ball,but I haven't got it all back together to see if thats the case. Thanks

It goes all the way through the plastic ball and into a pre drilled hole. The plastic ball on both collunms look the same except the one that came with the spring is hollow for the spring to pass through. I will take some more pix of what I am trying to do. Thanks.

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Does anyone know if #28 in this pic is a must have and if so,what is it's purpose? I am trying to mate the bottom half of a tilt collumn to the top half of tilt-tele collumn and the lower shaft doesn't have a hole for the spring to sit in and I don't want to weaken the shaft by drilling it because it's not as thick and is beveled more then the upper shaft. Thanks.

http://www.tocmp.com/manuals/Chevy/58-68parts/6.000/pages/Image47_jpg.htm

Thanks for the pix, thats excacty what I was looking for.

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I have finally started to reassamble my 48 thames and am trying to mate a upper part of a tele tilt column to my chevy lower steering column. I am not even sure of year or make of gm tele, but the turn signal switcth is cable operated . I have modified the plate that holds the 4 bolts and have that figured out, but I am looking for a digram to to put the upper part together.  I searchhed the web and and can't find a site wit pix. There are some pieces that I am not sure what order they go in. Sorry for the long post, but I am really stuck and would like t finish it so I can move on to the narrowed rack. Thanks. This is what happens when you wait to long to get back to working on it.

That is a beauty! Do you have any pics of side views of that car? The color is perfect.

Thanks, the engine is a 350 sbc 671 blower 400 trans narrowed 9" ford rear with coil overs and 4 bar. Front end is a narrowed pinto crossmember, narowed rack and a arms.

Forgot to ask,is there a way to tell the cast iron from the forged steel?

Thanks for the info. If they are cast iron and not forged then I don't think I should run them here in California with all the pot holes we got.

I bought a pair of 2" drop spindles and the guy told me that they are one piece forged steel made in the USA. Well after getting them, they don't appear to be one piece and now am wondering if they are forged steel or cast iron. Can you tell by looking at the parting lines line on a crank shaft? I don't know if I should keep and use them or send them back and get some real one piece ones. I am sure that there are alot of drop spindles out there and I haven't ever heard of any breaking, but It still worries me.