[Skip Fix]

OK guys that have rebuilt columns. My 81 tilt felt loose at the end so looking in my shop manual and also some online like this one it shows a bearing and adapter. Dealer part #s adapter 7805822 and bearing(an actual bearing like a mini throw out bearing)#7805700. And the bearing looks slightly too big to even snap into the adapter!

So I pull the column apart doiwn there as well as a non tilt 79 and both have just a plastic piece like the adapter with just a rubber seal on the inside-#7825647 and outside# 7825648-both numbers dealer can't find. No real bearing on two different columns. So what's up?


Here are some pictures of the complete plastic and rubber seals, one apart and the new adapter and real bearing.

[GStage1]

GM/Saginaw did away with a real bearing there in 1978....so you can use the plastic "bushing" or install a true ball bearing set-up....up to you which you prefer.

[Skip Fix]

Funny the break down picture is for 79-81s!

Does the bearing actually press into the plastic collar as there is a curve on the bottom of it and it looks like a REAl tight fit.

[GStage1]

You can interchange the two set-ups.....GM went to the bushing set-up with the introduction of the 78-87 G-bodies and all GM models had the plastic bushing.....another way to cut costs.

You can put the bearing in the plastic sleeve/housing....if you don't have the bearing set-up....let me know....I have many of them.

GStage1@BuickPerformanceClub.com

[Skip Fix]

I just bought the bearing and the bearing adapter new(in the pictures) but it doesn't really snap into it,bearings are kind of pricey!.

I found the slack was actually the other all plastic piece moving in the column tube. Squeezing it down cured that.

Funny the parts guys (two different dealers) do not have the non bearing setup even listed for F bodies.