collumn

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

stuck the bolt in and welded it through the drilled hole

 

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

 

and welded it up

 

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

 

so I took it all apart and cut it too

 

welded the shifter tube and collumn back together

 

re***embled the collumn

 

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

 

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

 

and another

 

last picture

 

Impressive, as usual!!!!

 

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

Paul

 

Great work as always. Those welds look damn impressive.

 

congrat's, and thanks for the update.

Cheers,

Drewfus

 

Yes! Another excellent segment, great work.

 

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

 

Nice work, thanks for taking the time to share.

 

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

 

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

 

page two all ready...BTTT

 

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

 

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

 

This is why I hang out here.
Nice work.

 

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

[/ QUOTE ]

know what I mean? nudge, nudge

Paul

 

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