steering shaft

[pupinabox]

How the heck do you get the steering shaft off? I would like to remove, I believe it is the intermediate shaft, between the steering rack and the firewall. Anybody got pic's?

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[REPLIC8]

Undo & remove the bolt in the upper coupling, undo & remove the bolt in the universal joint by the steering rack.Push the shaft back up towards the bulkhead so the universal joint comes of the rack & then pull it back down away from the steering column. [:D]

Andy
1981 UK SPEC TR8

[Beans]

Opening up the gaps in the U-joints with a large screw driver and a few taps with a copper hammer might turn out to be usefull too ...

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[Beans]

Edit ... forgot this one;
You'll have to remove ALL three bolts from the shaft.
Otherwise the U-joint at the top won't slide down far enough to get it of the steering column ...



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1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)</font id="blue">
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