Genie GTH-1048, Service Manual

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Section 4 • Repair Procedures March 2015
Part No. 123701 GTH-1048 • GTH-1056 4 - 25
OPERATOR'S COMPARTMENT
2-2
Machine Controls
How to Remove the Steering
Column
1 Open the access door above the hydraulic tank.
2 Disconnect the battery from the machine.
Electrocution hazard. Contact with
electrically charged circuits could
result in death or serious injury.
Remove all rings, watches and
other jewelry.
3 Remove the fasteners securing the
transmission control lever to the column.
Carefully separate the lever from the column.
4 Remove the nut securing the key switch to the
dash panel. Gently push the key switch through
the opening.
5 Remove the fasteners securing the dash panel
to the dashboard.
6 Carefully pull the dash panel towards the seat
of the operator's compartment.
7 Tag and disconnect the wire harness from the
componments of the dash panel. Remove the
dash panel from the machine.
8 Loosen the two lower fasteners securing the
dash frame to the operator's compartment.
9 Remove the two upper fasteners securing the
dash frame to the operator's compartment.
10 Rotate the dash frame towards the seat of the
operator's compartment.Remove the dashboard
from the machine.
11 Tag and disconnect the ground wire of the steer
column.
12 Support and secure the steer orbitral to the
dash frame.
13 Remove the fasteners securing the steer
column and steer orbitral to the dash frame.
14 Lower the steer orbitral and remove the steer
column from the machine.
How to Remove the Steering
Wheel
1 Open the access door above the hydraulic tank.
2 Disconnect the battery from the machine.
Electrocution hazard. Contact with
electrically charged circuits could
result in death or serious injury.
Remove all rings, watches and
other jewelry.
3 Remove the horn button from the steering
wheel. Remove the nut securing the steering
wheel to the column and remove the steering
wheel.