steering column guibo installation help

[crybert]

i ordered a guibo joint from maximillian and i received it today and i was wondering if anyone knew how to install the guibo on a 2002 tii steering column.

pictures would be great! thanks

[JerryC]

That's not a 2002 guibo. Your tii guibo should have either 6 or 8 bolt holes in it. Contact Maximillian.

[crybert]

thank you for the info, i will be returning it immediately.

[williamdholmes]

looks like a steering column guibo

[rms_sandiego]

This looks like the correct steering column guibo.

I attached the diagram from Max. If you look at the steering column shaft, there are two collars, one around the shaft coming up from the steering box below the guibo (#1 in the diagram) and one on the lower part of the steering coumn above the guibo (#5) in the diagram. These each have two studs that extend through the guibo with nuts that attach them. The two are off set by 90 degrees as shown in the diagram.

Take off the nuts on the studs from both collars to free the guibo.

You now have to loosen the collars so that they will slide up and down on the shafts. Loosen the nuts on the bolts that clamp the collars (#2 on the diagram) and remove the bolts completely from the collars -- this is important because the bolts sit in a groove on the shafts and the collars won't slide out of the way fully unless you take out the bolts.

You may need to take a large screwdriver or pry bar and open up the collars. To get at the collar slots and the various nuts and bolts, you may need to turn your steering wheel from side to side to rotate the parts into view.

Now make sure your wheels and steering wheel are dead straight. When everything is apart, the steering wheel will spin freely and you want to be able to line it back up. You can use some paint or scribe some lines to show the correct alignment of the collars on the shafts With the collars loose, you can slide the upper collar up on the steering column shaft and the lower collar down on the steering box shaft and free up the old guibo. Fit the new guibo over the lower collar studs and loosely fasten the nuts. Slide the collars back into place making sure that your steering wheel is centered (depending on how far you slide the collars, they may have come off the splines and won't be in the original location). Have someone push down on the steering wheel about 1/2 inch to preload the system. Tighten everything back up while the pressure is being maintained.

The nuts on the collar bolts are torqued to 18 ft-lbs and the self locking nuts on the studs that go into the guibo are 11 ft-lbs.

PS: There is a ground strap that should go between a stud on the upper collar and an adjacent stud on the lower collar that isn't shown on the diagram. Make sure you put it back, or your horn may not work. On mine it was in sorry shape and a made up a new one with a short length of 12 guage wire and some terminal ends

[jimk]

If you let the steering column shaft spring towards the car interior you will be spending another couple hours fixing the return on the turnsignal lever. Clamp the shaft with a visegrips at the shaft near the column then take the flexible joint apart. Been there and that happened to me.

[BillWilliams]

Also, you need to pre-load that shaft when you reassemble.

[crybert]

what do you mean by "pre-load the shaft?"

[BillWilliams]

If you loosened the shaft at pinch bolt near the inside of the firewall, when you hook the guibo back up and before you tighten the pinch bolt, you will notice you can push in on the steering wheel about 1/8" to 1/4"

Have a friend or foe press on the steering wheel, hold it in and tighten the pinch bolt. That pre-loads the bearing in the steering column.