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!
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