steering shaft

Believe it or not things are getting cleaned up under the hood, this picture doesn't really highlight that but its a shot of the steering shaft I made. I used part of the Ford Explorer's about 1' out of the steering box. The u-joint is from a Subaru (go figure) but they're steel and small so it works good for me. I had to cut 1" off the end of the junkyard steering column. The columns lower bearing was the steering box of the old Courier pickup so I found a bearing that I could slip inside the column tube. Luckily it also had a near perfect diamter for the steering shaft itself. The diamter of the bearing allowed some slip so I preloaded it with the length of the shaft. Basically the shaft is slightly too long so it preloads my new lower bearing. Some gloss balck and away it goes!

dash guts

This is a shot from the passenger side, shows the new steering column and the new fuse block. I moved the starter solenoid inside too. You can see how the steering column just bolts to the bottom of the dash using the factory mount. The factory gromet too

steering column and dash

This steering column is from a 1975 Ford Courier pickup that I got from the junkyard for $35 bucks. I was finally able to get rid of the rest of the factory Ford steering column (and the magnesium) by replacing it with this unit and removing the factory dash completely.

sneak peek

Heres a pic of the new dash that im putting in the hotrod. I removed every single wire from the car, stripped out the remaining Ford Explorer dash down to the firewall and fabbed up my own. Still working on the wire harness couple weeks to go. All the wires are under the dash now though including the PCM (computer) the starter solenoid and a new marine fuse block.

The dash is gonna be flat white paint with a flat clear coat. Very simple layout: Tach., water temp and oil pressure gauges thats it. No speedo, fuel, battery, etc. Eight toggle switches, half of em for lights the other half for fuel pump, computer power and start switch.

Custom Exhaust

A buddy of mine needed a short section fabbed up for his project 1992 GSX1100 he's been building. He had the header and a titanium muffler needed a 12" pipe to snake up and connect the system. I built a connector for the Ti muffler and pinned it in place with screws, my pipe I just weldedto the header.