Hey! It's official! I'm a magician.perttu wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 10:16 amThanks for having meWelcome to the forum!
Based on my limited experience, there is so little space up there, that if you have to do anything more complex than loosening the bolts, rotating the ring and then tightening the bolts again, it's probably easier to remove the whole steering column from the car. Then again, maybe some magician with right tools and small hands could itNot sure it would have been so easy with allen key bolts?
Couple of hours to remove, including the mandatory wait after disconnecting the battery, then removing the steering wheel and seat.
One 8mm ratchet ring spanner and a torch. Apart from the foot-well trim panel and the lower steering column shroud that was all I disturbed.
Refitting took around an hour as by then I knew what I as doing. Only issue was not being able to reach to put the bolts into the holes. As previously stated, put them in the ratchet ring spanner, offer them up, apply pressure on the bolt head with a screwdriver blade and ratchet them in. 5 minutes to do both. Aided by the fact that I indelibly marked the motor, ring and column before I took it apart, so it was all lined up.
To be fair though, I was the guy with small hands who used to be stood on a gearbox jack, holding the required tools over my head, and jacked up into the access panels of a Tornado to change stuff, so I guess I have had practice.
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