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I have a 42'Ford pickup truck that I need to pull the steering sector out of. It has the key switch on the steering column. Their is a pinch bolt at the point where column and sector meet. Can I pull that pinch bolt out and loosen the column, lift it out of the way, will this allow me access to separate the two? I think it will, but its been years since I have worked on one of these old girls.
 

Are you sure that is not a later model steering column? I thought the key switch was on the dash back then. I know the '56 cheby my son and I built had a van column from the 80's already in it, so the key was on the column and not the dash. I'm thinking the fords were the same.
 
Key and steering wheel lock are on the steering column in a '42. You can unbolt the steering column from the bottom of the dash, take the steering wheel off and make sure the steering lock is off, so that the steering wheel will turn, then loosen the clamp on top of the steering box and they will come apart. If you are going to take it out from the bottom you will need to get the truck a long way off the ground because the whole steering shaft will have to come out the bottom . I don't think that the steering box will come through the floorboards.
 
Learn something new everyday! Would have never imagined a locking steering wheel in that old a model, especially on a pickup.

Scary thought driving around with that steel spear pointed at your chest in those old cars and trucks!!!
 
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