Adding Tilt?

[Gary]

I've mentioned I'm probably buying a 72 GMC LWB 402BB 700R4 in another thread.

What would it take to put tilt steering on this?

And for someone who's never really spent any time under a hood (all that book learnin never left much time for cars), how would you recommend someone get some knowledge? Was thinking of taking some courses maybe at one of the local tech colleges or something.

[imdarren]

Some courses at the college would be good.
BUT! Keep lurking around this board, and you will learn more than you can imagine!!!
As for installing that tilt goes. It will take you roughly an hour.
1) Remove the bolt that goes through the clamp on the column just in front of the fire wall (Inside the engine compartment). Actually there are 2 clamps. One on the main steering shaft, and one that clamps the outer column housing (at the firewall)
2) Remove the black square plate under the dash / column with the 4 bolts. Under that plate is 2 bolts that clamp the column to the underside of the dash. Remove those 2 bolts.
3) Unplug the wiring harness that goes to the colunm. There are clip things on each side of the black U shaped connector. Make sure you thry and unclip as you pull apart the connector.
4) unplug the neutral safety switch down lower on the column towards the floor.
5) If you check just behind the insulation on the inside of the firewall (black colored cardboard stuff) there is a screw on the left side and one on the right. Those need to come out.
6) Then with some careful negotiation, your column should pull out. You may need to wiggle hard.

To put in your new column just reverse order the above items.
And if I forgot anythig, I'm sure someone will let us know.

Again. Keep hanging around on this board! You will learn more that you could ever imagine!!

Darren

[Gary]

Sounds easy enough, basically take it off, remember what you did and do that in reverse to put new one in. Might start looking around for a tilt for this truck (being a big fella tilt is handy ).

How about Ebay for parts? What are thoughts on this?

For one thing this truck has the stock exhaust manifold, definitely no headers, the ones on there I'd not be surprised to hear are original, they're solid but old looking. So I was thinking "hey headers are the thing" so I started hitting Ebay here's one set that caught my eye:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2456591512

Also the motor looks bone stock (it's all orange, quite clean looking too). I was thinking "probably could use a carburetor + intake manifold upgrade" but what else should be done? Also chrome dress parts, fine to use or avoid? Guy who sells lotsa chrome on Ebay offered me a package deal:
Deep Trans pan,oil pan,valve covers, air cleaner, timing cover, spreader bars oil breather, oil twist in cap, distributor wire retainer, upper and lower pulleys, power steering pulley, alt pulley, waterneck and both alternator brackets for a long Water Pump BBC. $226 + shipping would this be a good start on making it a looker or should all this crap wait until the very very end of things?

Here's a link to the truck in question to help give an image:
http://adcache.collectorcartraderonl...4/63385294.htm

Here's the other thread where I was asking dumb questions so I don't double up
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...threadid=87405

That 700R4 on a big block seems to be some concensus it might not like that much torque, would a transmission cooler be advisable (or is this something that's already there that I didn't know to look at? haha). Saw one on Ebay too while browsing around so it made me think.