Awesome, I will check that out! I'm still going to take the gearbox to get it looked over. I'm already in there, I would rather have it not go out on me while it's put back together. I also never got to drive the car, I picked it up in a non running condition and started disassembling everything.ian65 wrote:If by the gearbox you mean the steering box, then that won't be the source of the movement in your steering column. If the shaft was pulling out of the box by an inch, you wouldn't have any steering.
Sounds like the collapsible steering column has , well, collapsed for want of a better description. There is a shear pin halfway down the column that snaps in a collision ( or if someone hits it with a hammer trying to get the steering wheel off and the 2 pieces of the steering column then slide about giving the play that you've got. Check out the steering and suspension section of the forum.... There's a long thread about it in there.
Hmm we call it the steering gearbox, I dropped the steering part because I already mentioned it so I felt it could be safely assumed that the steering gearbox is what I was talking about...If I was talking about the transmission (which doesn't even exist right now) I would say transmission. Thanks for the info though!
