steering column

[John76]

converting column shifter to floor shifter any need to know info appreciated.

 

[565bbchevy]

What Gbody and year and also the same for the donor floor shift column?

 

[pagrunt]

Pull out the column, remove the shifter lever, grind down the lever mounts, patch & fill the opening, repaint, put the coulmn back in the car & enjoy.

 

[565bbchevy]

Pull out the column, remove the shifter lever, grind down the lever mounts, patch & fill the opening, repaint, put the coulmn back in the car & enjoy.

You might want to install a floor shifter after that though. 😉

 

[pagrunt]

You might want to install a floor shifter after that though. 😉

Sometimes one may want a challenge but you could still spin the shifter bowl. 🤪

 

[CopperNick]

Gotta love that Sunday post coffee AM humor. As a more labor intensive but slightly easier option you can hit the salvage yard or Pick a Part, locate a G-Body hulk that still has a column that fits your needs, pull it, pay for it, and drag it home to swap it in for what you have. The benefit it this is that you get a built in tutorial on how and what to remove in order to extract the column = great teaching aid. BRING METRIC wrenches for the nuts that hole the column cradle to the dash bracket. They are 15mm if memory serves. Even if the color of the column housing is different, matching the color is as easy as a trip to O'Reilly's or AutoZone or even the neighborhood hardware store.

 

[CopperNick]

Gotta love that Sunday post coffee AM humor. As a more labor intensive but slightly easier option you can hit the salvage yard or Pick a Part, locate a G-Body hulk that still has a column that fits your needs, pull it, pay for it, and drag it home to swap it in for what you have. The benefit it this is that you get a built in tutorial on how and what to remove in order to extract the column = great teaching aid. BRING METRIC wrenches for the nuts that hole the column cradle to the dash bracket. They are 15mm if memory serves. Even if the color of the column housing is different, matching the color is as easy as a trip to O'Reilly's or AutoZone or even the neighborhood hardware store.

 

[CopperNick]

Just ignore the double post; the site was having a slight e-seizure, probably due to no morning coffee!

 

[565bbchevy]

Depending on the year and car the donor column is from there might be wiring and wiper switch differences

 

[CopperNick]

And that is a very valid point. The various columns that I have available to me all seem to possess similar wiring harnesses in that all the wire colors match and are loaded to the same terminal positions. At least one of them is an Olds Cutlass from the late 70's and it does not seem to be too different from any of the Chev G-bodies. The other point here is that with the aftermarket floor shift, the steering lock may no longer lock the transmission, just the wheel itself. That long locking rod is still present inside the mast. For myself I have not done anything about if at the present. i may have to pull the steering wheel and see if i have to decommission that gismo if seems to be causing me problems with starting.