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11-19-2023, 07:57 PM | #1 |
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33 pu steering column
I was wondering how to disassemble a 33 pickup column. Original old truck and I dont want to destroy the horn button or light switch, neither work, but still want to save all I can. Trying to get to the column drop off as it has been butchered in the past. Do pickups and cars use the same drop, any other years the same as th e 33 pickup? Thanks
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11-20-2023, 01:26 AM | #2 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
To get the column out, there should be a "break away" bolt where it attaches to the dash board. It will look like a screw with no slot. Some folks cut a slot for a screw driver, and some weld a nut on there to remove the bolt. To get the light/horn rod out, you take off the light switch body at the end of the column, and remove the horse shoe clip that holds the rod in place. Sounds easy, but there is not enough space to pull the rod out unless the steering box is dropped to the floor, or you back window is out. DO NOT BEND THE ROD to try and cheat, it must come out straight. Not sure if pu and cars are the same, either way its hard stuff to find, so be careful.
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11-20-2023, 02:00 AM | #3 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
Should be the same as a car ,remove the compleat box of the chassie ,then remove the steering wheel ,pull the column tube of the shaft ,
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11-20-2023, 08:16 AM | #4 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
The column drops are not the same. Very similar but have different part numbers.
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11-21-2023, 10:40 AM | #5 | |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
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https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=332948 |
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11-21-2023, 02:26 PM | #6 |
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11-21-2023, 02:28 PM | #7 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
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The only thing nice about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.... "Silver rings, your butt! Them's washers!" "We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!" - from 'The Wild Bunch' - 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NReUd2_0u0 |
11-21-2023, 04:17 PM | #8 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
YEAH MY mistake I have both these in stock should have looked ,Ted
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11-21-2023, 07:06 PM | #9 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
2ndgeer,
The column drop in my '34 BB doesn't look like that. As far as I know, the steering column in the truck has never been removed. Red |
11-21-2023, 07:18 PM | #10 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
I have had BB trucks with a column drop like a 1932 car.
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11-21-2023, 07:33 PM | #11 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
If they were '32s, they shared the same column drop as the passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Not so for '33-'34 pickups, panel deliveries, and BB trucks.
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11-21-2023, 08:51 PM | #12 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
32 car 33 pick up ,34 car
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11-21-2023, 09:08 PM | #13 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
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11-21-2023, 10:39 PM | #14 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
Ted,
With respect, the one on the right side of your first photo is a post-'34 component. |
11-22-2023, 01:00 AM | #15 |
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Yes I have reversed the order ,32 car and or as David says posable pick up ,33 pick up , 34 car in the next picture .
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11-22-2023, 03:38 AM | #16 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
Sorry, but post-34 means that it is a steering column bracket used after the 1934 model year, i.e. 1935 or later. It is not a '33 or '34 pickup bracket.
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11-22-2023, 05:24 AM | #17 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
The bracket that Ted indicated as a '33 is a '40-41 pickup
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11-22-2023, 03:48 PM | #18 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
Yes I surrender , I photographed the wrong one. I have here what looks like a 32 Car right hand drive one ,I would need to put up photos .
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11-22-2023, 04:43 PM | #19 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
The sawn-off one on the left in your first photo is a '32 LHD bracket. The '32 RHD version has the opposite slope on the top and no hole for the starter switch control cable.
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11-23-2023, 02:01 PM | #20 |
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Re: 33 pu steering column
With respect ,It appears to be a example of Ford carry over parts into the next year ,off a left hand drive 33 BB Truck or welded fire wall type 32 ??
The post 33 one is for a 32 steering box I am working on hes Not that fussed about original Last edited by FlatheadTed; 11-25-2023 at 12:36 PM. |
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