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Originally Posted by mike100

Wow, that's really quite easy. I have been into two of these columns now, but they were taken apart completely.

My car was quite bad considering the low mileage, so I bought a new tilt base (took the column out of the car). the base is still available, but not the tilt housing. The oversize pins can correct the play in either. what I did was hand select the pins that I had on hand (the new tilt base came with two more) and then swaged some .003" copper foil used for winding transformers to bush up the tilt housing hole.

I would have preferred to do it the way you did though. In my case i really did need the base pretty badly, but i don't think there are too many good tilt housings that couldn't benefit from a fatter pin.

question/comment:
-$50 is not too much to custom fit to eliminate this problem and avoid column disassembly.
-Can you get the pins with wider inner or outer dimensions (but not both)?

Thanks for sharing and that sounds great. I had bought all the tools to pull it and do the same. There is a guy that sell the both housing and support ($350 for the pair); probably the best way to go:

http://www.corvettesteering.com/

Tom Reina
Corvette Steering Service
2215 Mullinax Drive
Anderson SC 29625
864-287-9990

I'm surprised with yours and low mileage, but I guess it depends on the owner and how much they use it for support.