How To Replace Upper Intermediate Steering Shaft 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 off.

Then 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's 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, just grab the shaft and just try to slide it past there. And you might have to push it from the outside. All right. You can slide it down and beside the accelerator peddle. Now, I'm gonna take the intermediate shaft and go around the accelerator peddle this way. And just slide that through the firewall.

Come out here. 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 nut 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. And get that lined up, and then just slide it down. And then you can get the bolt...get the bolt started. And then you take this nut with the bracket, get that in position. And 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.