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i recently had my 92 broken into and i need a new steering column with the vats. anyone know where i can get one new if possible and how much i'm looking at. i've had keys made before and know that doing such alone was around $125. curious what the whole thing is.
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Car: 1986 camaro
Engine: 383 sbc
Transmission: th-400
Axle/Gears: 4th Gen 10 bolt/Detroit TrueTrac 4.
http://www.trademotion.com/partlocat...92&catalogid=1
Like those? I don't know if they come with the VATs system but it should for that price. BTW, use the drop boxes to select year camaro and model.
This site is like gmpartsdirect. I use it to get part numbers all the time. Never actually ordered from them.
Like those? I don't know if they come with the VATs system but it should for that price. BTW, use the drop boxes to select year camaro and model.
This site is like gmpartsdirect. I use it to get part numbers all the time. Never actually ordered from them.
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wow that's an interesting site. thank you! had no idea how expensive they are. someone breaks your column and that alone could quite possibly total a car out.
hmm... crazy.
hmm... crazy.
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Yea mine was busted into a while back and they punched the column. I am fortunate to have a non vats version, so I am sure I can find one at the junk yard for little to no money. You could also see if someone here on the forums has a vats column lying around too.
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In my opinion the best bet is to find someone parting out a 90-92 Camaro and buy the entire used column from the steering wheel to the steering box connector and most importantly, get the matching key. If VATS becomes a problem just burn a new PROM with VATS turned off, no wiring needs to be changed. If you don't have PROM burning equipment sitting around someone is doing it on Ebay right now for $60 (they will burn new PROMS with stuff like VATS/EGR turned off, no timing/spark changes). A while back one of my friends parted out his 91 Z28 so I took the entire column just in case something like this happens. Only thing is, forgot to keep the matching key.
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I don't think you need the whole steering column. If I remember correctly from last time I had my GTA column open, the VATS wire runs right from the ignition module down through the colunm and out the bottom. I think you can add a VATS ignition module to any column as long as you're up to the task of running the wiring through it. Just the ignition switch shouldn't cost that much. I don't know where you were paying $125 for keys, but every time I get a VATS key made it's $20.
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When mine was broken up by a would be thief, i bought a column on ebay. At first i was going to use it for parts but it got pretty tricky in the column. So what i did was take out my lock cylinder and put it in the new column. There is a wire attached to it for the vats system that you have to feed it down the middle of the column. And i just swapped out the columns. the one that was broken was all broke appart by the turn signal lever and the tilt lever.
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looking for size an type of bolt used to mount column to firewall, I have 2 but need 3, do know that is is a 10 mm hex head, looks like self tapping threads
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