definitely pulled the column out of the truck, had trouble understanding some of the written instructions I found on the net but once I got it farther apart the instructions made more sense. now that I've had one apart they don't seem near as complicated to me. people really complained about getting the tilt mechanism back together with how much spring tension there is on it. but I mounted the column in a vise then just used leverage and it went back together pretty easy. and as I said before, it is night and day difference in the steering, I thought I had a ball joint binding or something but it was all in the column. the column had problems since I bought the truck and I didn't realize it. that was 40k ago.
