steering columns drop pics

please post some pics of home made or bought ...thanks

 

Dunno, this what you want to see? Upper drop is the stock 30 tank drop, lower on the firewall is a late 31 bolted to the firewall. Column is exhaust pipe...

 

I bead rolled, the bent the edge back, and made a curved section for the bottom. The column is inside the tube, making it look like the column is welded to the drop

 

Hamber Limeworks has some nice drops in his online catalog. http://www.limeworkspeedshop.com/store_turnsignalsanddrops.html

Clean no nonsense stuff.
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Working on a 30 A coupe. Started out with this for a column drop ---


and ended up with this ---


Whittled out of a piece of 1" steel stock. I guess that makes it billit

 

Wow! That is cool. Looks like something that belongs in an old Ford...

Great job.

Neal

 

wow that is purty..i need one like that thats what i want it to look like ,,,

 

Here's my home made steering drop.----------Don

 

no kidding Canuck, that is awesome!

 

Very nice work.....

 

Canuck! is that made with cnc or hand?

 

It's been a while, but there's another steering column pics thread from a couple years back.

Nothing wrong with leaving this one up.

I'm sure some new stuff will surface.

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Canuck, well done.

Lots of filing, grinding etc. after the machining I'll bet.

Would make a great tech article if you have the pics.

 

This is a home made drop by Kirk Duquett in his Woody '32 roadster pickup.

 

Nice job!

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MoutAin motor conn rod. Says 426 one side hemi other side. MADE THE DASH INSERT FROM A PIECE OF SEWER PIPE AND HOLE SAW PLUGS. MAYBE I SHOULD DO A TECH ON IT?

 

Sorry, no pics of the process.

Tools utilized: a drill press, a old made in Tiawan one that goes down to 270 RPM, a angle grinder and files and lots of time.

So it doesn't take a fancy shop for anyone to make one or great machinest skills, just lots of determination and some time. Just remember to measure carefully cause you can't just re-run the CNC program and do it again.

Canuck

 

wow, thats determination!

 

Here is a pic of one I sell/use at my shop. It is cast aluminum, made by a local m***achusetts craftsman.

 

here ya go

 

only problem i have is that my column is way lower than the factory one so im basically going to have to remove the old one from the tank and put a longer one in place of that ...does the old one need to be drilled out to be removed ??????

 

The 29-29 is factory welded to the gas tank, thats why I ran mine the way it is.