I have a Loose Steering wheel coloumn near the tilt steering so i decided to take it apart and try thighting the torx bolts that tend to cause this problem... only now i forge how to put it all back together. Any help as soon as possible would be most excelent. also schematics for the steering coloumn would be great. Thanks in advance from a noob

 

No photos, but go here:-

https://www.thirdgen.org/newdesign/t...ngcolumn.shtml

 

it was helpful.. but kinda what started this mess... while it is easy to remove parts remembering where they went is harder and it isn't quite detailed enough

 

Tilt Steering Column Exploded View

 

Well i was wanting to do the same thing to my GTA but after reading that i think i will just take it my mechanic.He will save me alot of cursing,yelling,etc and hes not too expensive

 

Sounds like a good idea... took a little over an hour for me to get everything back in correctly... but i am a little slow

 

it took me a couple hours to do mine. I didn't find it difficult, although there were a couple parts of the process that could have been.

Pulling out the pins at the base of the steering column (#29 in the pic) is impossible if you don't have a pulling tool, and even then, make for damned sure you don't strip the threads or you're in trouble.

Other than that, the only issue is getting the column lock ring back on (#4 in the picture). I didn't have the special tool they make, so I had to use two blocks of wood to press on the lock gear while my father set the locking ring into place.