Having Received No Advice On How To Go About Removing The Steering Lock I Decided To Soldier On In The Dark.
First I Removed The Steering Wheel Using A Home Made Puller
I Also Removed The Steering Column Covers. This Enabled Me To See Clearly The Steering Lock.
The Lock Looked The Same As An Early Range Rover And Should Have Been Easy To Remove Just Undo The Two Bolts Holding The Collar In Place.
This Is Where Things Got Hard The Range Rover Fitted The Lock With The Bolts Pointing Down And The Key Coming In From The Left Hand Side. But Not Bristol TheY Turned It Up Side Down With The Key Coming In From The Right. As A Result Of This The Bolts Were Pointing Up And Hard Up Against The Bottom Of The Instrument Binnicle.
All This Meant That The Binnacle And All The Instuments Had To Be Removed ( Quite A Job,dont Forget To Label Each Wire.)
The Next Problem Was To Undo The 2 Bolts Which Are So Designed
That When Done Up The Heads Break Off Which Is Done To Stop Would Be Thieves . You Need A Punch To Tap The Bolt Anti Clockwise.
Now Remove The Lock And Fit The New One . I Replaced The Security Bolts With Normal Bolt .
From Here On Just Fit Every Thing Back Into Place
Good Luck Peter Dowdle
N.B.
Please excuse all the capital letters I typed the whole thing using capital letters. The software converted it to upper and lower case.
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