2008silverado

Yeah, all these forums have tit useless m*r*ns trying to help by recommending the obvious things that 1) everyone knows (screwdriver tip), 2) are useless (spraying armor-all inside the column), 3) irrelevant (applying repairs from inapplicable vehicles) and suggesting repairs that worked on antiques of a different design.



Really? Did they "pre-load" it or actually "over-stress" it? Clearly the bearings cannot take the stress of the pre-loading.

How did that happen? It's because auto engineer designers are at the bottom of the engineering food chain, especially those at GM. Instead of making repairable assemblies, they start with a core assembly and they stack, tack and hang a dozen other sub-assemblies on and around it as after thoughts. The result is, you have to disassemble a dozen sub-assemblies to get down to the key components that they UNDER-DESIGNED to begin with.

I have worked with Auto engineers and they just get the junk out-the-door and rely on 10,000 auto forums for people to discover the repair info they refuse to share with customers.



Nice applicable signature.



No, I poured sand all over it and seated the inter race with a 20 lbs sledge hammer.

Jordan927

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Clearly....Case in point ---VVVVV---


That's is an intermediate shaft...it slides out after you remove two bolts. It also has a TSB for the bearing.