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[kingsly]

Just a quick question some one might be able to help me with is the steering column's plate that mounts on the firewall..
My lx came in pieces and it came with a steering column (with column shift) .. but when I went to bolt it in. .the plate wasnt lining up with the threaded holes on the firewall. It actually looks like someone has put it on backwards.

Now my 74 LH is stil complete and after looking at the mounts on that it still looks like the plate is reversed on my lx's one.
Now a few questions - are those plates the same through both lx and lh's.
Have i been given a LH one with my LX.. can that plate be removed.
I tryed but the column shifter coupling was preventing the plate from sliding off the end..
I shall get a few pics tonight for closer inspection.
But i've added this pic i grabbed from ayios project thread


cheers for any help

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Edited by kingsly, 30 August 2010 - 01:04 PM.

[Statler]

AFAIK there is no difference between the LH & LX plates.
The auto/manual ones are different.... in that the manual one has the hole for the clutch rod.
I don't know about the column shifts though.

[kingsly]

hmm ok cheers for that statler, both my lh and the lx are auto's (and the lh has a column auto in it). i'll post some pics up 2nite and see if it make sense to some1 else.. i may just be a dumbass.
cheers

[Heath]

From memory, my panel doesn't have a hole in it because it has a factory fitted full cable clutch, but yes for rat traps they do have holes and they should all be the same apart from that.

[Torryhead]

hey mate, hope this helps. pics my wife took while doing up the LH. ignore that the steering shaft is shorter and a bit cleaner looking, i did the bearing conversion (something that i highly reccomend though)

Torryhead

Also, this was a factory floor shift Auto if i'm not mistaken

[kingsly]

awesome thanks torryhead. I'll jump out to mine this evening and do a bit of a comparison.,.

cheers again

[kingsly]

ive just added some pics for you guys to have a quick look .

see if im missing anything here.







in the last pic the top locator in in place where i think it should be and you can see the rest of the plate is way out... it is even a torrie column ? ahahha

[Statler]

I'm with Baron, that's the wrong plate.

[kingsly]

yeh thanks for clearing that up baron. when i was comparing to my lh plate the dome shaped concave section along side the cutout for the actual column -on the lh and in torryhead pics above that concave is very pronoun.. and in the plate i have in the pics is only just protuding.

i'm north of adelaide , Paralowie area.

So now im no the hunt, so if anyone has a column for sale,, please let me know..

cheers for the help.