I switching my steering column out for one that has the steering wheel controls on it. I have an '88 T/A and the column is from the same year. I looked in the service manual and it looks like 3 bolts at the firewall and 2 bolts underneath the dash is all it takes. Is there any special precautions or tricks to doing this? I just don't want to mess anything up.

 

Thats a big job, and a real pain in the rear because of the working room (Or lack of) Not something I would want to tackle hence why when I recently broke my steering column in another GM vehicle of mine, I took it to a shop to have done and just paid them to perform the headache. There is hardly anything I don't do to my own cars- but thats one I would pass on. That and a heater core replacement.

 

I only want to do the intermediate shaft, not the whole column. I did a little more looking and it looks like there is a nut and bolt that holds the intermediate shaft onto the rest of it. Is this nut and bolt that hard to get to? Is this really that difficult?

 

heater cores are really easy on a 3rd gen. Something like a fox chassis ford they’re a bear on (you pretty much have to remove the whole dash assembly), but on the f-bodies it’s really a matter of removing a couple of access covers, 2 hose clamps and swap.

 

does anyone know if you can buy the plastic peice that the horn wires hook into behind the wheel on the column.