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Post by McCauley5983 Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:38 pm

anybody know of a manual steering column that fits are cars like the camaro ones or earlier chevelle ones. does anybody make an aftermarket one for our cars. is the floorshift automatic column the same as a four speed
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Post by pila Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:45 pm

Summit Racing sells the after market Ididit brand, and I believe the Flaming River brand. They are available for column or floor shift etc. Check their site.

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Post by McCauley5983 Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:52 pm

i checked ididit's website and they dont have anything specific to our cars there cutoff is 72 and kinda weary of the universal one because of wires and stuff
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Post by bigredlaguna Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:53 pm

The 2nd and 3rd gen columns will physically interchange. They have different levers where the linkage hooks up for the column/key lock

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Post by Limey SE Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:55 pm

you have to Call Flaming River they have them for one our members that passed away had one .......Billy Ray were you here for the Hydro King experience


But also floor shift columns from Cutlass will work you just have to change the blinker switch inside the column so it will plug into the Chevy Harness, I know thats what's in mine

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Post by bigredlaguna Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:57 pm

I just saw you were talking about manual transmission columns. The pics I put up are for auto trans.
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Post by McCauley5983 Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:58 pm

ya that chassis he built was bad A$$. its sad what happened i wanted to see how he was going to finish it.
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Post by Limey SE Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:03 am

billy-ray wrote:ya that chassis he built was bad A$$. its sad what happened i wanted to see how he was going to finish it.

Yea His was Flaming River I almost sure of it Let me dig thru the pics I have saved of his build ..............

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Post by McCauley5983 Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:05 am

is there a difference between the auto column and the manual column
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Post by Limey SE Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:48 am

Limey wrote:
billy-ray wrote:ya that chassis he built was bad A$$. its sad what happened i wanted to see how he was going to finish it.

Yea His was Flaming River I almost sure of it Let me dig thru the pics I have saved of his build ..............


well holy hell it was an Ididit LOL

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Post by bigredlaguna Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:40 am

billy-ray wrote:is there a difference between the auto column and the manual column

I googled for some answers to this, and found that at least on the 78-81 G-body cars, the difference is that the manual trans steering column does not have the lever in the engine bay end. There is a lever near the key that you move to release the key and unlock the steering wheel. The different construction changes the dimensions of the column slightly.

I've never seen a manual trans column for our generation of vehicle, but I know they exist. Maybe someone who has one can enlighten us.
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Post by Limey SE Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:49 am

I had one in My first Malibu 74 let me see if I can track down a pic I dont know if I save them ...........Had a 3 speed manual shift on Column

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Post by jerry46765 Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:21 am

Someone needs to bust out a hollander interchange manual because there are 10 times more Camaro manual columns than we have in our cars.

There is a guy that just does GM columns; Randys steering columns. Maybe google him and he may have a rebuilt one ready to go.

It's funny because I have a column from an '86 automatic car sitting on my bench waiting to become manual transmission only. My plan was to lock it in the park position and remove the shift rod from the column.

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Post by oldsguy Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:09 pm

I put a 1969 buick column in my 77 olds cutlass the only thing i had to do was adjust the shifting linkage and change the brackets that bolt to the bottom of the dash and the bracket that bolts to the fire wall

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Post by pila Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:09 pm

I had a '73 Chevelle 3-speed, column shift. Those Chevy column shifters really sucked when they were a bit worn out.....

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