How To Replace Steering Column Bearing 2000-06 Chevy Tahoe

You wanna start by locking the steering wheel and make sure the wheels are straight. You can take the seatbelt and go through the steering wheel to prevent it from spinning because you don't wanna mess up the SIR coil. And plug it in and that'll be good enough. And find the steering shaft, the intermediate shaft. And there's a bolt that goes through it with a nut. Use a 15-millimeter wrench. Loosen this up. And take that nut off like that. And then take the bolt out. Now, you're gonna slide the intermediate shaft towards the cab of the vehicle and separate it from the lower steering shaft. You can see that separated right there.

Now under the dash, I need to remove the top part of the intermediate shaft. There's a nut right here with a bolt that goes through. Take the nut off, use a 15-millimeter wrench, loosen this up. There we go. And take that bolt out and you can slide the shaft down off the steering column. So slide the intermediate shaft down and then on the other side of the accelerator pedal, scrap the shaft and just try to slide it past there. And then you might have to push it from the outside. And then you can slide it down and beside the accelerator pedal.

If you struggle taking that shaft out, you can take this grommet off. Just take these little caps off. You can use a 10-millimeter socket on those and this will come out, and then that'll give you more of an angle to get it out, but you don't necessarily need to take that off. Now, I'm gonna disconnect the connector for the steering wheel position sensor. Just push down on the lock tab, and wiggle this out a little bit, just like that.

Now, I'm gonna take the steering wheel position sensor off first, just take a 90 degree pick and there's some clips. There's a clip right here. Slide that back and then slide this clip off right here. And this little cover is gonna come off first. There's a clip on the top. It's a little bit difficult to get to that. All right. Take this little cover off here and carefully slide the position sensor out. Just gently, I'm gonna take a screwdriver and just get underneath the sensor. Just pry it out a little bit, just like that. And don't spin that center. Keep that center just like that. We'll re-install it the same way.

And now I'll just take a screwdriver and just pry this out a little bit. Pop that down and just slide the bearing out. And there's the bearing. Take the new one. And you just line it up and start the same way the other one came up. Just get it lined up and just press it in. Just like that. And it is slotted right here on the side and you've gotta twist it a little bit to get that to line up. Right. So that bearing is all the way down on the steering column. Now take the position sensor and line this up without spinning it and carefully press that in. It's all the way down. And take the cover, line this up and lock it down. That's good.

Take a connector. Line the connector up and lock it down. Now, I'm gonna take the intermediate shaft and go around the accelerator pedal this way. And just slide that through the firewall.

And slide that through there and get this lined up. You could always take the accelerator pedal out of the way. That would make it a little easier as well. And take this bolt, get this started and get the nuts started. And tighten that down.

If you can get a torque wrench in there, which it's pretty tight, you're gonna torque that to 46-foot pounds. If not, do the best you can. Get that lined up and then just slide it down. And then you can get the bolt. Get the bolt started, and take this nut with the bracket. Get that in position. Tighten that down. And then torque that nut to 37 foot pounds. Then the job is all done. You can take the seatbelt off and you're good to go.