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Remove wiring plugs from a steering column lock shield

  • 13-10-2013 10:31am
    #1
    case_sensitive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭


    Trying to break into this guy's Focus ST170, but I can't get the damn lockshield off...


    Well, no, but I am trying to strip the steering column off MY 2002 ST170, and there's a Lockshield around it, which the Haynes manual and my workshop software knows nothing about.
    There look to be 4 rivet-like plugs around it. Its purpose seems to be to protect the wiring plugs, you can disconnect them, but not remove them with it in place.
    Having the key in, and turning it doesn't appear to affect it.
    I could cut it off with an angle grinder, but I don't want to destroy any other part of the column.
    Should I drill out the rivets?
    I'll try and post a photo later.
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  • #2
    cletus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,228 ✭✭✭cletus


    case_sensitive wrote: »
    Trying to break into this guy's Focus ST170, but I can't get the damn lockshield off...


    Well, no, but I am trying to strip the steering column off MY 2002 ST170, and there's a Lockshield around it, which the Haynes manual and my workshop software knows nothing about.
    There look to be 4 rivet-like plugs around it. Its purpose seems to be to protect the wiring plugs, you can disconnect them, but not remove them with it in place.
    Having the key in, and turning it doesn't appear to affect it.
    I could cut it off with an angle grinder, but I don't want to destroy any other part of the column.
    Should I drill out the rivets?
    I'll try and post a photo later.

    there was a similar post a couple of days ago about an fto. Most likely you are looking at shear bolts, where the head shears or breaks away at a certain torque.

    Drill them out like rivets and replace


  • #3
    case_sensitive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭case_sensitive


    Well, they came out, it came off. Quite the deterrent, took a good 15/20 minutes. Even the Guards might get there before the yob got through it!

    Diagram I worked from (mine only had 3 'rivets', and was Ford (re)branded).

    192.jpg

    New 2, 2.5, and 3mm bits needed now :mad:

    10255881574_b4ce589048_c.jpg


  • #4
    Muckie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭Muckie


    Welll done did a similar thing with an old BMW a few years ago.

    A drimel with drill bits, cutting discs and lots of patients :)


  • #5
    case_sensitive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭case_sensitive


    Muckie wrote: »
    Welll done did a similar thing with an old BMW a few years ago.

    A drimel with drill bits, cutting discs and lots of patients :)

    Yeah, shamefully, my 4" angle grinder has been one of the unsung heros of my toolkit for this last gig!


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