I had to take my steering column apart to fix the sloppiness in it, I am in the process of putting it back together now and am confused on how the this bearing goes together. This is the upper bearing, the one closest to the steering wheel on the shaft.

Here are the three pieces laid out


This is the order that I think they go together


This is the three stacked up as how I think they go together


Or does the bearing flipped the other say and seated like this?


Sorry for the blurry pictures, they come from my crappy sprint camera.

 

Seems to me, if you put it in the colum wrong, the final nut won't reach the threads on the shaft. What a shame, you have that digital camera and didn't take a pic. during dissasembly!

 

well... my column was so loose that when I started taking this off stuff was just falling apart... So dissassembly pictures wouldn't help.