NEED HELP WITH STEERING PROBLEM

[Pilot house]

Can any one tell me if their is bushings or bearings in the steering column. The past two days of driving around my steering is getting sticky and I can hear creaking in the column. It does not feel like its the steering box. It feels and sounds like the problem is between the column and shaft. And if so can I simply remove the steering wheel and the bolt at the bottom of the column and slide the column off the shaft?

[NiftyFifty]

Simply isn't a word I would use for even getting the steering wheel off..lol you should be able to slide the tube off once the wheel is removed, and the bracket that mounts to the bottom of the dash. I can't recall anything in the tube actually, but I think mine had been monkeyed with before I got there. There are great manuals with parts lists in the Resouce Centre, might want to check there too

[pflaming]

Sounds to me like the horn wire has fallen down and is slowly wrapping itself around the shaft. JMO

[MBF]

Is there oil in the steering box?  If its dry you may have a bearing going in the box, or possibly the bearing at the top of the column right under the wheel.  I'd remove the nut from the wheel and soak it with a good penetrating fluid to get it ready to pull using the proper tools (a bearing puller and some padded blocks of wood will work with a jaw type puller if you're very careful.   The bearing under the wheel (if I remember correctly) is a captured ball bearing that rides on a race that is part of the column's outer tube.  Mike  

Edited May 4, 2015 by MBFowler

[Pilot house]

Thanks very much guys for your input. I will tear in to it tomorrow and I will up date you with what I find.

[Pilot house]

Thanks again guys!!!! It was the bearing at the top uo the column. The bearing was dryed out and rusty. Cleaned and greased it and now it steers perfect. If any one attempts this, I was able to remove column with out unbolting the steering box. I just popped of the steering wheel took bolt off the bottom of column and slid it up. It does come verry close to the roof. I don't have a head liner but if you do I think you would have to at least loosen box up.