Heated it up today and it came apart , must of been the NY ghost rust (
thanks to all for the advice!
). Ended taking the whole column out and putting it in a vice to disassemble it. Clyde , you are right , it is all one piece, unless you take out the plastic pins to separate the shaft in the engine bay. With the new motor in the way, the shafts just wouldn't come apart. Its basicly a solid shaft up by the wheel ( 12" long) that goes into a hollow tube that attaches to the other solid shaft at the bottom end of the column. The upper shaft slides up and down freely into the hollow tube about 6 " with the bottom shaft held in with those 2 plastic "shear pins" Doug in Az
My Old Monza now lives in Arizona with its newest owner.
The 90's just keep rollin' along........
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