I assisted Andy in his replacement of his steering collumn bushing. Granted, neither of us had done it before and we didn't really know what we were doing. The instructions we had were just as you just said. But when we couldn't get the shaft separated from the u-joint we did some improvising. I personally dont remember removing the binnacle, but we did remove the kneepads, the two column support bolts, and then resorted to classic American engineering, brute force. We pulled out on the steering wheel, and out came the column, minus the secondary connecting shaft for the collapsability. That part was still in the ujoint. However, we were able to easily separate the two with one of us pulling on the remaining piece of the collumn, and the other prying open the ujoint seam (VERY rusty). Putting it all back together, we initially tried reinserting the inner shaft from the collumn, and aligning it based on the grease marks. However it kept collapsing when we tried to put it all back into the u-joint. So we decided to reverse what we had just done. We took that inner shaft out again, *carefully* hammered it back into the ujoint, then simply slid the rest of the collumn back on over it. If you ask me, the extra steps of removing the kneepads and possibly the binnacle for this (which arn't hard at all) was definately worth it given the difficulty of working with that dang rusty ujoint. Jim Reeve MNDMC - Minnesota DeLorean Club DMC-6960 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "darryl" <darryl@xxxx> wrote: > "to fix, you need to remove the binnacle, the knee pads, and the complete steering column by > seperating the U-joints at the intermediate shaft" - Andy, you must have too much time on your hands. There is no reason in the world to remove the binnacle to replace the bushing; you don't even need to remove the knee pads unless you really want something extra to do. Just mark the shaft where it meets the upper u-joint, unbolt the u- joint, unplug the wires, and remove the two column support bolts.