I was reading about the sheer pins in the shop manual last night. And also found a Mopar tech video about them on YT. Early car safety features. Early tech training via film strip, complete with the “ding” to advance to the next frame.
On the early cars like Vixen, that small pin isn't there. I don't know when they started using it. Mine also doesn't have the large roll pin holding the coupler to the input shaft on the gearbox, but rather a retaining bolt and nut. The early cars were different with a lot of stuff like that.No worries Ironracer..........There is a tiny pin just at the top opening of the coupler that has to be pushed out in order to remove the "guts" of the joint. The big roll pin you are referring to is at the gear box end of the coupler
I never did get the pin out and I didn't want to booger it up so I just pulled the column and the shaft.
I pressed the lower shaft pin out, while pressing in a new one, once? Chipped a Lil chunk off the end of the shaft! Ran it anyway....after a weld em up repair.. what are ya gonna do? Darn it!
Dude, those Chrysler Master Tech videos are actually pretty doggone cool! I'm glad somebody found those and put them on YouTube!
I think if you soap up that gasket, you can stretch that booger over the bottom of that shaft across the solid pin
Thanks, that is a great photo of what it should probably look like, "at the showroom." I was at a car show yesterday and saw a few A bodies with columns in various positions. Yours appears centered, like I would expect.
