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Ron ronh at owt.com
Fri Feb 19 17:54:11 EST 2010


Note that a tele-column is now on Ebay with a starting price of $1000!
RonH

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>I guess you are refering to the pot joint. It's put together without any
> tape, so what you have is somebody's jerry-rigging.
>
> BTW, I can understand the past owner wanting to keep the tele column. It's
> an extremely rare piece of equipment. Only 299 were made for '69, and a
> total of only 797 for all of '67-9 model years. Plus the Corvette vultures
> are always canabalizing OUR Corvair tele column cars for modification to
> fit in their megabuckmobiles.
>
> -Mark
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: chris mann <cfmann at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: <VV> (no subject)
>>
>> when i bought my 69 monza it came to me without a steering wheel,
> steering columns and steering box.
>> The PO decided he did not want to me have the telescopic :-(
>> I have since retrieved one (non-telescopic) and am attempting to
> reassembly the shaft to the "knuckle" and the steering box.
>> On my other 69 (as I use it for visual reference) there is some black
> tape wrapping the "knuckle".
>> The "knuckle" is the metal cover that protects the bearing blocks and
> spring with grease.
>> What kind of black tape or mastic should I consider? Have referenced the
> vendors and found nothing suggested/offered?
>> -chris mann
>>
>
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