collumn

[Paul]

this here post is another in my modified series.

I lost count, it's been so long since I posted one.. seems like about day nineteen?

anyway today I slid out of work early to work on it,

I put together the steering collumn with the three on the tree.

I used a late fifties F100 box and shaft and the collumn out of the '61 Lark.

and here's how;

first as usual I gathered up all the parts

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I trimmed a little off the bottom of the mounting flange on the box

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clamped the box in place and figured 14" shorter would work for the shaft

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I beveled the ends and cut a 7/16" grade 8 bolt to fit inside and drilled the two shaft pieces for roset welding it in

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stuck the bolt in and welded it through the drilled hole

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clamped it and the other half in a chunk of angle iron to keep it true

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and welded it up

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then measured the collumn, it gets 9-3/4" taken out of it

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so I took it all apart and cut it too

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welded the shifter tube and collumn back together

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reassembled the collumn

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put the collumn on the box and shaft, put the wheel on and clamped it back in the car for checking fit

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I used a chunk of angle iron to clamp to,

I will make a new bracket to accept both the box and wish-bone end,

but you can see it will all come together nicely

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and another

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last picture

[Fat Hack]

Impressive, as usual!!!!

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[Paul]

gunna be kinda tight fitting pedals in there,

I'm still working that out in my head...

hope to post more soon..

to be continued http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Paul

[dehudso]

Great work as always. Those welds look damn impressive.

[Drewfus]

congrat's, and thanks for the update.

Cheers,

Drewfus http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Jojo]

Yes! Another excellent segment, great work.

[Paul]

thanks guys,

again this whole series is all very basic stuff,

I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible to show the young hot rodders how easy it can be to build a car.

A side note here; you can see in the first picture that I cut the shaft from the Stude, but as it turned out the Ford shaft is exactly the same diameter, spline and thread at the top, the only difference I could see was that the Ford uses a tube shaft and the Stude shaft is solid.

I used both top and bottom from the Ford so I could use the pin on the inside, if I used the Stude top I would have sleeved the outside of the shaft for the added strength.

Paul

[Tinbender]

Nice work, thanks for taking the time to share.

[PEDDRO]

Nice. I'd like to do something similar with a LaSalle column.

[36-3window]

that is some very nice work, you are a talented person,and i'm glad you shared it with the hamb....this is the kind of thing that should be studied by many other members...but i'm afraid this will be page six before long,,, i hope i'm wrong

[36-3window]

page two all ready...BTTT

[Ayers Garage]

Thank you for taking the trouble to post this type of information. It helps me a lot seeing how other guys do these things.

[flt-blk]

Great Tech.
Keeping the shifter on the column should make it feel
larger inside.
TZ

[Stevie G]

This is why I hang out here.
Nice work.

[Paul]

[ QUOTE ]
Keeping the shifter on the column should make it feel
larger inside.

[/ QUOTE ]

know what I mean? nudge, nudge http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Paul

[Nads]

Nice Paul.
I'd really like to fab up a column shift for my '34, there's precious little room in there.

[burndup]

Bitchin! Thanks!

[Rusty]

That is sweet. Man I wish my projects were that easy. I love it when somoene is not scared to cut away. Great job.

[Paul]

[ QUOTE ]
Man I wish my projects were that easy.

[/ QUOTE ]

I left out all the fancy language it took to put column back together,

I didn't think anybody wanted to hear a half hour of swear words http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Paul

[Plowboy]

Nice!

[SlowLearner]

Yup. This stuff is why I'm here!
You make it all look so DOable!
THANK YOU!
(Saving all of it)
-Keith

BTTT

[plmczy]

Man 60's you make it look so simple and easy to understand. thanks. A question to you guys that run the older steering columns, aren't you afraid of being impaled if you were(god forbid)in a car accident? Is there a way of using the older columns with a collaspable shaft without have to go with a ididit($$$$) column? later plmczy

[overspray]

Nice work, Paul. SUPER JOB of explaining and pictures.
plmczy has a good point. I remember some friends who died in car accidents from chest trauma due to steering columns. I put a mid 60's gm collapsable column in my 55 Chev. Those use the "rag joint" connector by the sector. From what I remember from my installation, your method should work but would be a little more involved. You would just have to make the cuts on either side of the collapse area. Some had plastic tabs that held the sleeves together which were designed to break on impact. Of course, welding would melt these if the heat was too close. Thanks again, Paul. overspray

[Paul]

thanks again guys.

safety is always a concern and the effects of a crash are allways on my mind,

BUT.. more important in my mind then the colapsing column would be that

IF YOU ALTER THE STEERING COLUMN, BOX, DRAGLINK, ARMS, TIERODS, ANYTHING

please do your best to make sure it won't fail and be the cause of the wreck http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Paul