Early Cordoba tilt colum info and bits wanted

Hi got a tilt steering column question. I have a early Cordoba tilt column that looks remarkably like a GM column. Unfortunately the previous owner had a go at dis***embling it and has lost the lock plate and cancelling camAre the two columns from the same factory? I&#8217;m going to shave the ignition switch off the column and use a dash key and start ****on but would like to get a lock plate and cancelling cam. Any ideas? Any one got one they would like to sell?<

 

Err. How do you activate a tilt column lock plate off the dash? Wouldn't it be about a billion times easier to just get a tilt from a 1968 or older car?

You can ***emble it without the lock plate and it will operate the same, it's not required except to lock the wheel. My daily it's kinda half-installed - I didn't have the tool when I took it apart and couldn't hold it down against the spring to get the lock ring in - and sometimes it locks, sometimes it doesn't, but it drives fine.

 

Good point. Going to take the lock mechanism out but would like to use the indicators and horn ****on and figured the easiest way is to stick the lock plate in. I don&#8217;t know if the spring serves any other purpose

 

you need to make a trip to an auto salvage yard...bring along a steering wheel puller and the tool for the lock plate. do you have junkyards/used auto parts/ recycling yards down there?

if you don't have the tools , the steering wheel puller would cost about $20 here and i just bought a lock plate tool tool at my local auto parts store for $12


the cam you may be able to buy new at parts dept chrysler/plymouth dealer

 

Yeah we have them down here but I have more chance of willing lotto that finding a tilt column of American origin in a wrecking yard down here. The photo is one I took at a wrecking yard in NZ last Friday Place called smash palace. Cars dome here didn&#8217;t get tilt columns until the local auto ***embly plants closed and all our cars came ***embled predominantly from Japan and Australia. Long swim to get up to your salvage yards

 

The Cordoba column you have looks like a GM column because it is a GM column; Chrysler used GM Saginaw parts for their tilt columns, and some of the steering gears and p/s pumps.

I really can't help on this, because I have not worked on the tilt columns and am not familiar with them.

You might try here:

http://www.mopowerstyle.com/forums/



Good luck!

 

Thanks for the info, now I can try and find the bits I need

 

See, now I can go to a salvage where I pull the parts myself and buy a whole column of any kind for under $20. Regular, Tilt, Tilt-telescoping, airbag car, about the only thing you don't find is an unpopped airbag. So when I see an early tilt without the switch on it, I grab one.

Those GM tilts are the same, more or less, for a long time, like from '69 into the 90s. Heck, when I junked one of my old beaters, I kept the tilt out of that, it's on my back porch.