Re: column shift linkage frozen

Posted by Fish'n Jim On 2013/9/20 18:31:43

I'm glad to say I'm going to close this thread out. It was fairly simple, once I took the end off and the spring popped out. Beware, there's pill spacers that hold it in that end and they are held by the cotter pin. The good news, there's not much room for the spring to travel, so you don't have to search all over your garage like most springs... It's a bit tricky getting them back in by yourself but a small curved pry implement is needed.
Thanks to all the help and support you all have been with your advice and pix. I learned I was missing parts I didn't even know I was supposed to have and that's invaluable. For H; the Packard P/N I believe is 3.3255 for that end cap. I'm scouring now. Maybe back 2 U if I can't improvise something but it functioned without it so I can remove the M spring in a pinch. The shaft spring looks like SS, it was shiny.
So I have Go, just need to tidy up some wires I took off for starting troubleshooting, attached the gas tank, fix the WHOA, and off we go! tooting our horn! - around the yard at least, she's not registered (yet) and it looks like a delay, SC may have lost my title.
The engineers creed prevents me from speaking evil about other engineers, so in that vein I refer to them as auto designers, but for christ sake didn't you ever hear of a theeaded end cap and zerk fittings???? I had a northstar Caddy and I swear they forgot to design space for the alternator. They crammed in the fenderwell and put the starter UNDER the intake manifold. How's that for brilliance. You had to disassemble half the car to do routine service. I guess they make more $$ on service that way. Put a shroud on it, and they won't mess with it and pay big bucks to fix is their motto.