steering column

[WRMZ71]

I just put a tilt steering column in my 71 and i looked at the ididit stuff. $$$$$to the tune of like 400!! I'm on a budget so i did the junkyard thing and found an 81 chevy van. It bolted right in. the only thing i had to do was change with wire plug it was a flat one and you need the u-shaped one. But i didn't buy one no sirr they both had 8 wires of the same color so i just chopped out the flat connector and spliced in the u-shaped adapter. The only problem i guess i've had with it and i'm not terribly worried about is that you're reverse lights switch sits higher up on the column than the old one did so i had to take it out. Other than that it went right in!!