Steering Column: Installation
- Install dust cover to intermediate shaft. Make sure bearing side of cover faces steering shaft side of intermediate shaft. See Fig 1 & 3.
- Apply grease to bearing and dust cover. Install bearing (2-piece) into dust cover. Attach intermediate shaft lower joint to steering gear and temporarily tighten dust cover bolts. Now tighten lower joint clamp bolt.
- Connect intermediate shaft upper joint to steering shaft. Attach steering column brackets to dash. Tighten clamp bolt of intermediate shaft and column bracket bolts.
- Loosen dust cover bolts and position dust cover so no clearance exists between joint and dust cover sliding surfaces. Tighten dust cover bolts. Adjust steering wheel position if necessary.