My column in my 88 Trans Am is toast and a guy has one out of a 89 Camaro for sell. My question is will it work? I can swap over the turn signal switch and keyswitch if I have too. I just want to make sure it will work before I spend the money. Thanks, Kyle

 

im pretty sure the columns are the same in both with jsut a different wheel. not 100% sure tho. i swapped the column out of my bird with no problems with the key or MF switch. everthing should basically pulg in

 

Does your car have VATS? I'm pretty sure the 89 does, as mine did, but not positive if all 89's did. I'm sure someone else can chime in. But yes the column is completely swapable. You may need to change a few things to make it work however. For example I swapped in a column from an 84 bird into my 89 maro, I had to swap in my multifunction switch and my lock cylinder as there was no key to the other igniton cylinder. I had VATS disabled so it would not have made a difference if I used the old cylinder but there was no key so I reused mine. The hardest part of the whole thing, and it wasnt really that hard, was making my VATS cylinder fit into the hole after removing the factory cylinder, That was becasue the VATS cylinder actually has a larger diameter than the VATS cylinder so it didn't fit into the hole in the column. This was easily fixed by making the hole slightly larger with a dremel tool, it simply took a little grinding. Assuming you have all the right tools it shouldn't take more than an hour. Only things I can think of that you may not have (but probably do) are a steering wheel puller, lock plate depressor, and a pair of snap ring pliars. It's a pretty straight forward swap. Good luck

 

Thanks guys that's what I needed to know.

 

there are differenes between wiring in an auto and a manual, found that out the hard way. the differences between vats and non vats are that a vats ignition solenoid will not fit into a non vats column, found out the hard way again, it will cut off the vats wires if its forced into a non vats column. i think thats it

by the way, if you use the lower part of the column and take the top part of the old column, from the black plastic shroud to the wheel, and put them together it will work. my buddy did this on his car