Sh0velMan's Track Car Build

Sh0velMan

Here are various photos and info.

Full Assembly:

Snap rings on both ends. One bearing pressed into the steel housing closest to the steering wheel. The other pressed into the aluminum housing and secured with a snap ring.








Snap rings removed and shaft assembly removed from the two housings. A lot of pulling with the pullers and hammer-based encouragement needed to get this far. Puller is mounted up here as I am pulling the steering lock collar off.



And here is the removed shaft. Need to find heim joints that fit these diameters. I am fairly sure I'm going to need to get the fat end turned at a machine shop to bring it down to 1" (minus a few thousandths for clearance) as heim joints larger than 1" seem to be pretty damned rare.


You also need to remove a bracket from the top of the column assembly. This is the bracket that the instrument cluster attaches to. It's fixed to the steel half of the assembly, the part that is closest to the wheel.

More info on that in the next post...

It appears that the steering shaft telescopes in and out on splines. I believe this is how they accommodate the telescoping steering wheel adjustment. I plan to fix this in place using sway bar lock rings. Simple and effective. They'll be used to fix the shaft with the heim joints as well so that it cannot move in the Z axis at all.

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