BTW, the later columns are 2 seperate pieces.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Planck" <mitch@ias.net>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 8:47 AM
Subject: dirt city
> I spent a few hours yesterday getting my four year old son dirty by
letting
> him help me clean out the trunk of my new roadster. Thirty odd years of
dirt
> can get nasty. My plan is to do a frame-off with my two roadsters and the
> newer one has a good headstart. A few POs ago someone took off most of the
> body bolts, and tons of other bolts, and threw them in the trunk. I
> collected them into a box for future sorting and also took off most of the
> hardware on the rear end of the car. After that my son and I started
wiping
> out the dirt from the trunk - I think the car lost a couple pounds just
from
> that. It looks much nicer now and I can forsee lots of future work. The
> passenger compartment is almost as dirty too.
>
> I do have a question though. The steering wheel had been unfastened from
the
> dash console area and was just hanging there. To aid in body removal, I
need
> to take it off. I pulled on it and it and the steering column came off,
> leaving the rod that goes from the steering wheel to the gear box hanging
> there. How do I remove that rod? Put the steering wheel back on (the bolt
> that holds the rod there had been taken off) and bolt it on and then pull
> hard or is there some other way? It looks like the rod isn't bolted to the
> other end, kind of just sitting there.
>
> Mitch Planck
> '69 1600
> '70 1600
>
> Chelsea, MI
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