73/74 Steering columns
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:10 am
Okay...so I bought a floor shift column for my '73 SSP (originally a column shift auto). The new column came out of a console auto '74 RR. I tried installing it today and the firewall mount is/was different between the two!! The bolt holes were not even close to being the same and they are shaped differently too!! Are they different because of the year or because one car was originally a column shift and the other a console car? I took the column shift column apart and pulled the firewall mount off of it and had to do some modifying to get it on the console shift column, but I got it and it looks/works good. What gives? I though practically EVERYTHING was swappable between a '73 and '74...especially between the same model (Satellite/RR).