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Telescope, no tilt, can retrofit
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Posted by JEM (more from JEM) on Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:03:23 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: 1991 9000, todd agostini, Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:41:43
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The early 9000s had a telescoping wheel, then they took it out and fixed the column in full-collapsed position for the first couple years of airbags. By '93 (?) they'd found the airbags weren't killing as many people as they'd expected so they put the telescoping feature back.

The following excerpted from something I'd posted elsewhere on the topic:

The fixed-column cars have a bolt with a locknut and a spacer to hold the column in the full-collapsed position. If your car is like mine that bolt has worked a little loose at least once in its life, your steering column has flopped around a bit, and you've had to open the lower dash to tighten it.

You need the parts from a car with telescoping column - the bolt, the lever, the wedge-piece that goes under the end of the bolt to make it tighten as the lever twists the bolt, the lower half of the column shell, and the lower dash with the slot for the lever. Early cars had a bent-metal-rod handle, later cars had a molded plastic handle. The parts that went into my '92 came out of a '97 CSE. You don't need to change or even remove the steering column.

Remove the lower dash and the lower column shell, take the nut off the existing bolt with a couple open-end wrenches, work the column into a position where you can pull the bolt and its spacers out and get the new one in. Get the nut on the end and tighten it enough that it locks when the lever's back but the column can be moved when the lever's forward.

You'll probably need to work some lubricant into the guide rail the column sits in to be able to move the column without tons of force, because on fixed-column cars they didn't lubricate the rail.

Put the lower column half and the lower dash on and you're done.

Please note when doing this the reason Saab locked the column in the first place - airbags can be hazardous to short drivers.

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