Slow build 72 II

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mojave450rider

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So I have limited time and budget so I have been slowly putting my 72 Scout 304 727 auto back to road worthy status. All work has been done by me, when I picked it up it was on a trailer in pieces so it has been a long road to get this point but am happy to this point. I did all the body work and rust repair, rewired it, stripped all the cheesy bed liner from inside, made numerous brackets and filled random holes throughout, stainless hardware, aluminum dash panel for round gauges, started a through the dash roll cage ( not a around or in front of dash ), led light upgrades. It has been a love hate relationship but, it is cool when driving it how many check it out even at the ugly duckling stage.
 

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Ok so I got the steering wheel off finally and noticed in the service manual there is a plate that should be right behind the wheel and held in place by a snap ring, however mine did not have that plate only the plastic housing with the horn spring. It does look like the snap ring is there holding it all on the shaft, so the question is do I need that plate? What is the purpose for that plate? How in the heck can I depress the spring behind the plastic piece without destroying the 40 year old brittle plastic...
Here is what I am working with
 

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The purpose of that plate was to lock the steering wheel. Don't understand exactly what the issue is with getting the snap ring off.
 
In the manual is shows depressing the plate down so the snap ring that sits inside the collar can be taken out, I don't really want to depress that old plastic on that stiff spring it will crumble. So I don't necessarily need that plate or what?
 
This shows using that #10 labeled plate to depress on the spring inside to get out the internal snap ring.
 

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If your Scout II steering column does not have the lock plate, then I would assume you have a tilt-wheel style column. Correct?? Tilts don't have the lock plate.

The Scout II uses the saginaw column, as used in millions of GM autos/ truck of the same period of the Scout II, and later.

Disassembly is similar to the standard column, but you need to take extra precaution to not damage the plastic parts.

I am sure this has been addressed in one of the IHPA tech forums above.
 
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