{"id":788,"date":"2022-01-17T19:35:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T01:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=788"},"modified":"2022-01-17T19:39:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T01:39:38","slug":"bench-day-steering-column-rehab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/bench-day-steering-column-rehab\/","title":{"rendered":"Bench Day – Steering Column Rehab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Had a ‘Bench Work’ day working on the steering column. It’s actually not as bad as I thought it was going to be. The top bearing plastic cage disintegrated at some point before the Jeep came to me, so the steering wheel was flopping about. The key\/lock switch was completely missing, and some of the other parts were in a box where the back seat should’ve been. I ordered everything new that I could and started in on it today. My buddy Dennis Allen<\/a> at KWFR was rockin’ the jams today, and even hooked me up with Red Barchetta to kick off the 5-O’clock Fast Lane with a shout out. Best DJ EVER! Thanks, Man!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here we getting started. The steering wheel came right off with a few taps of a rubber mallet… mostly because it was missing the wheel nut, but I’m glad I didn’t have to use a puller. This was the hardest part of the day, because\u00a0Dennis Allen<\/a>\u00a0dropped Red Barchetta that I requested on the 5-O’clock Fast Lane, and it’s hard to get any work done when you’re rockin’ out to one of your favorite tunes and playing the air drums. LOL!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not too much gunk, as much as everything just being tight with a bunch of dried up dusty\/grease grime everywhere. A little PB Blaster and some patience had it apart in no time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After extracting what was left of the upper bearing, some Purple Power, and some carb cleaner, things are all cleaned up (except the rusty dust on the column itself), and I stopped here for the day since I need a 1\/8-1\/4″ ID cylinder to drive the inner bearing surface onto the shaft. It’ll be waiting for me next weekend.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some of the pieces and parts I worked on cleaning up. I’ll have to route the stray wire for the shift indicator’s back light when I install the new signal combo switch – that’ll be fun. I just hope I remember how it all goes back together.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Had a ‘Bench Work’ day working on the steering column. It’s actually not as bad as I thought it was going to be. The top bearing plastic cage disintegrated at some point before the Jeep came to me, so the steering wheel was flopping about. The key\/lock switch was completely missing, and some of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-jeep"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}