I went to take the steering column off my mini today - it's an easy job on UK cars, it's essentially a screw. However, looking at the aussie ones, it's like a smoothed out bolt on both ends. Had a look at my LS - same thing. The haynes manual, being UK, says screw.

Soooooo, am I just having a blond moment here? How the hell do I remove it?

If people aren't sure what i'm talking about, i can post pics.

Help me Obewan support team, you're my only hope!

Another question - anyone at SDMC got a rubber cone compression tool I can borrow?

I believe I know what you mean, is there enough room to get multi-grips on each end? From memory theres a couple of mill of body to grab hold of, but don't have it in front of me.

Otherwise, small grinder/dremel and cutting disc, make a slot in each and undo with blade screwdrivers.

It is made specially hard to undo so that you can't bypass the steering lock by just turning the whole column. Just use vicegrips or grind a flat on each side.

I suspected as much - always worth checking with you guys though (as i'm known to have my blond moments haha).

Cheers,
Mark

Thanks for bringin that up. I came across it the other day when stripping the clubbie. I piled it in a corner to forget about. Now i know that destruction truely is the only way.

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