Im going to try to describe this as best as I can cause I don’t have pictures.

I posted a thread the other day asking about the locking mechanism in my steering column and I’ve gotten my column out and taken apart. Found out it was the upper bigger bearing that was bad. After taking the steering column apart I had the bigger like back/lower half and the smaller front/upper half apart but that shaft that runs through both to connect your steering wheel to the knuckle under the dash is still in the smaller/upper part of the steering wheel. I need to know how to get that shaft out cause there’s ball bearings down in the column itself and I can’t get them out.

 

Here is what is stopping me because I have pictures of that. I took this before taking my column out.

That black plastic piece has a snap ring and a spring behind it and i don’t know how to get that off and out of the way.

 

Slide the black turn signal cancel cam off (force it up and off with a big screwdriver)
Then the snap ring and washer can be removed
Fish out the broken ball bearings out with a pocket screwdrivers magnet
You need to get the turn signal switch out of the way and then you can start removing the upper tilt housing
I might have that column repair procedure in a book somewhere
U can do it

 

I ended up doing just that right after posting it and it worked. Thank you for your help and letting me know that is how to go about it if it happens again!!

 

Just replace both of those upper bearings and it should last quite a while
Did you get it done already?