Thank you so much Dave!

 

The nut method is a plus, but it's not 100% safe. I took apart 100's of tracotrs and things can still get screwed up. Believe me, a puller is worth it.

 

We also fell into the Bronco II pit one time; a 1985 in our case.

For the most part, one can easily bury more money in a Bronco II just keeping it usable, than three lip-stick queens can spend in Walmart in a lifetime.

It was the worst money-pit I ever had.

Interestingly, though, there are three in my area --- all red and white now that I think about it --- maybe it has something to do with the color scheme --- all three still being daily-driven by the original owners; any one of these three will tell you that they have hardly spent a penny on repairs during their entire ownership.

I wouldn't buy another one with free gas for a life-time.






So far as needing a ridiculously expensive clock-spring to keep a few totally un-necessary functions alive, without a minutes thought about the matter, I would travel an alternate route.

I would put the HORN on a button on the dash; or, as someone else suggested, on a floor-button or a pull-lanyard = cool.


My preferences are for NON self-cancelling signals, so the loss of that feature is a benefit in my book.


As for cruise-control, I believe that is the second most dangerous technoligical feature ever introduced to driving, second only to the cellular telephone; I purposefully dis-able the cruise on everything anyway, so it's loss is no loss in my thinking.


You can spend that clock-spring money on something actually useful and not give it to the fatcats at Chrysler.

 

Yup the steering wheel center has threaded holes for a puller; start pounding on that steering column and micro switches along the tubing will start to break (anyone seen my four-way flashers?), and in my case the cruise control switches launched pieces all over the cab. The steering wheel puller kits are cheap, like $15-, and do all the common steering wheels.

 

What ^^ HE ^^ said; plus, you are gonna need that very same puller when you attempt to pull the drive-gear off the injector-pump main-shaft when it is time for a re-seal.

 

My clockspring is out of a 94 Caravan, plenty of those in the junkyard. Just had to clip the air bag lead. Also appeared to have the same ignition switch as well.