A little word of caution if you have found this blog inadvertently... This isn't intended so much to be a write up but more a reminder to ME how all this crap came off, and hopefully I'll get to the point where I start putting stuff back together. (Also, I am CRAP with technical terms so what I call a dooflunky may actually be a kick-panel, toe board, running board, or it actually may be a dooflunky. I don't know. As long as it makes sense to me, right?) :) In short, if you found this, welcome. Feel free to leave comments, either encouraging or berating. If you are berating, be funny. All I ask.
So, what follows may be boring, simplistic, amateurish, etc. I don't care. I needed some reference pictures and some text explaining what I did, and why, because it may be a few years before I get the cashola to put this sucker back together.
That said, I've already removed the seats, ripped up the carpet, removed the dash and removed the steering wheel. All pretty straightforward. Now I'm to the point where I'm just removing screws, bolts and nuts, hoping stuff will come off the car. When it does, I'm always pleasantly surprised.
The guts underneath the steering wheel:
There were three screws, same size as the one the screwdriver is removing, underneath the clicker piece. (Told you I was horrible with technical terms, and yes I have a set of shop manuals, but am too lazy to look up the words.) Also removed the screw from the little piece shown above... (I really need to find out what that is, honestly)
Found it. Apparently, it's the key warning buzzer terminal. Whatever.
Removed buzzer thingy, replaced it and the other three screws back in their mounting holes in the cover. Took a socket to the two nuts pictured in the last....um, picture... but nothing happened. Put them back on. I gotta get my books to the shop, rather than at my house like they are now... I'm not sure how to remove the ignition, but pretty sure that's next.
Removed this snap ring, but left it on the shaft for now.
Started on the lower column bracket. 4 bolts. These screw in to welded on bits on the column itself.
Loosened these to be ready to remove upper column bracket.. Need to take off the 2 nuts behind these to remove the brake pedal support bracket.
Unfortunately, that's where my drop light blew. It was dark outside, and I took that to mean I needed to get home.
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