Ok I think I'm going to give up on the jeep grand cherokee shaft because I have been through so many of them and still cant get a good one. My question is what size fitting would I need to order from flaming river to adapt to my steering shaft. Car is 78 buick regal. Do I need to order two? One for each end? I also see they sell the collapsable shafts but they are like 300 for a complete unit.
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kingcolbert83 said:
You need a Jeep Cherokee shaft, not Grand Cherokee. They need the steel ends, not aluminum, and there needs to be NACAM stamped on the end that goes on the column end. I had to file part of the column end down so the pinch bolt would go through, and had to heat the shaft so it would collapse to install, but it wasn't a bad project. You may be getting the wrong shaft to begin with. I got mine from ebay seller alljeepparts401. Tell him you want the steel ends and youll get it, very good seller.
I have the right one but it will not collapse. tried everything except the heat part. dont have a torch though.
kingcolbert83 said:
It takes a little heating to get it to collapse, but it will. I have one of those small propane bottle torches. I think you can get the bottle in the camping supply isle. Not sure about the torch part but it just screws on the top of the bottle.
kingcolbert83 said:
The whole thing. When I got mine to collapse, it collapsed all the way and I had to heat it up again to pull it out and install it. When it cools it doesn't want to move. But it is not supposed to move freely anyway, just collapse in an accident.
outsider_27 said:
ok. thanks. I'll have to try that. Its just been sitting under my carport. anymore tips?
The one i got collapses pretty easily with a little pressure, it shouldn't be that hard to collapse because when it's bolted in the only way it's going to collapse is if the steering pump moves and that won't happen.
It's not a jeep grand cherokee, its just aearly 90's regualur square body style jeep cherokee...when you pull the jeep grand cherokee you'll notice the steering colum end is too small, but when you have the right one there are some nylon tab's that keep it from collasping just hit it with a hammer and you break em right off
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