Street Rod Steering Column Installation

Attaching your column to a steering gearbox or rack pinion system.

Street rod steering column installation.

Flamin iv ndustr 8648822 7 2578 e 286 1. This time at the quick speed shop i m mounting the steering column and hooking the steering shaft to the vega box in the model a hot rod shop truck. This is the shift lever where your linkage will attach from the column to the transmis sion. At the bottom of your column you will notice a lever.

Steering joints with 3 4 dd. 2 key tilt steering column installation 3 key tilt steering column ignition wiring 4 neutral safety switch column shift only. Automatic column shift columns. Chrome tilt steering columns.

Figure 1 it is vital that the steering column is tight and secure. Column shift linkage installation. Once those are done it ll be time to strip the truck down to a bare frame and do. Grease spring and insert it into the casting hole.

Dress up kits shift arms. The steering column must be supported with two column drops under the dash and a support bearing through the firewall. Ididit provided the column and shifter cable as jegs and borgeson helped out with the missing pieces to complete the installation. Note the 5 16 hole through the bushings most kits use a 5 16 bolt to secure the rod to the column.

Column shift paintable. Steering joints with 1 dd. Ignition rod must move freely otherwise damage to the ignition key and tumbler assembly will result. Column drops floor bases.

Of mounting the steering column in the most common street rod or hot rod applications. In typical street rod steering with an off center box multiple u joints and a more vertical steering column the system is more likely to fold in on itself at the joints pulling the steering. 3 piece dress up kit. Steering shafts supports.

Street rod products click on thumbnails to view larger photos. Column electrical rebuild. Walton fabrication was quick to solve the problem for car owner aron hahn welding his plate from their steering column kit in unison with the custom ididit column. The steering system is now configured and the installation of my front shock mounts is basically all that s left.