I recently dropped my steering column in my 73 Dart to do some work. I did it just like the FSM tells you to, and let it rest on the driver seat.

I put it all back together like it came apart but started having some problems. Sometimes the car wouldn't crank when I hit the key. Weird. Then sometimes when I put the car in PARK it would start to roll away on me!

I finally noticed that the gear shift indicator area on the steering column (PRND12) was slightly canted to the right (clockwise) just a bit. So the no start was a neutral safety issue, and the rolling away was a not quite in PARK issue.

I have tried fixing it by loosening everything back up under the column and at the fire wall, but I can't seem to rotate the column back to the left, the little bit that it needs.

Has anyone else ever run into this?

Do I have to shim the cloumn to the left at the bolts where it attaches to the dash?

Thanks for any insight!

Chris E.

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-68 Valiant, 273 2bbl
-67 Dart /6 4bbl, Leaning Tower of Power!!!

You should be able to leave the column bolted up and just adjust the shift linkage. There should be an adjustment on the trans linkage.

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Correct me if I am wrong here, but if the part of the steering column which includes the gear shift indicator window is canted, I can't see how adjusting the linkage would correct that.

I would think the column would have to move as a unit.

No?

Thanks,

Chris E.

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-76 Cordoba, 360 4bbl
-68 Valiant, 273 2bbl
-67 Dart /6 4bbl, Leaning Tower of Power!!!