Hey guys? I have a dumb question, how do you unbolt the steering shaft? I am installing Hedman shorties, my steering shaft needs to be moved over to get it in. Can someone tell me what to do to get the steering shaft out of the way? I unbolted the one bolt up closer to the brake booster, but I can't get anything to move.

 

Try harder. It'll break free with enough elbow grease.

 

No need to even mess with that.

Open the driver's door. Pull back the carpet from below the pedals. Observe a large triangular piece of metal held to the firewall with 3 bolts. That's the steering column.

Remove the said 3 bolts. Notice the weenie insignificant layer of foam used to seal the said triangular piece of metal to the firewall. Remove said foam.

Observe and evaluate how far the said triangular piece can be moved toward the fender. If it can't be moved far enough to gain satisfactory clearance to the header, elnogate the 3 holes the screws go through, in the appropriate direction. Trial-fit until desired results are obtained. Rest assured, a little goes A LONG way; however far you move those screws, you gain about 3 times that much header clearance, due to the angles of things.

Replace the foam with windshield sealer. (comes in a box about 1' square and maybe ¾" thick; a giant coil of the stickiest, gooiest, funkiest, blackest, nastiest stuff anywhere on a car) Tear off a bit of it, and make a snake about 1/8" thick, and lay it around where the trinagular piece of metal goes. Re-bolt the piece of metal in the said position achieving desired clearance.

Took me longer to type all that than it will for you to do it.

Somewhere along the line, anywhere really, feel free to put back together that hardware you're asking about, that doesn't need to come apart for this preocedure.

 

Thanks guys got it figured out finally