This is the placement of the U-joint
now after cutting the column. It gave me a little more room and should work
a little better
now. It also changes the angle of the steering shaft somewhat (in
my favor) which is a good thing.
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I had to fast-forward a little here
because the headers took a week to finish but here are the headers now that the
steering shaft is in place. As you can see I had to work around the shaft instead of
the opposite. This side is a mirror image of the other side with the
exception of the #1 tube (on the left) which had to be routed around the
shaft. Notice how close the brake line is to the headers now. I'll have
to move that line away from those soon to be hot tubes so I don't have
boiling hot brake fluid. Oh well....it's always something.
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Here you can see how it looks from underneath
the car. The angle of the U-joints can't excide 35 degrees. After
measuring the angle of the steering shafts, I had an angle of around 30
degrees so I shouldn't have any binding problems.
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Now that the mock-up steering shaft
seems to be the right length, it's time to cut the real stuff. The steering shaft
is also made by Borgeson and is polished stainless steel. I have 22" to work with which
means I have to make sure I cut once and measure twice. After
determining a length of 9 1/2" , I cut it 9 3/4" long just to
make sure because I can always trim some off the end if needed. Sure
enough, I had to trim off 1/4" but better safe than sorry.
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