67 cuda FB progress UPDATE

I worked on the steering column this week as well as the floors.
I'm glad I did, as the barrings were shot and the one of the two hourglass knuckles that fit into the coupler had a hairline crack in it. When I was taking it apart, it broke in half. Woulden't you know it? There is a replacement kit available at the dealership! $19.00 later and I had what I needed! Couldn't bekieve it. Apparently Mopar used this same design up till 1990 on most of there cars and trucks. Anyways, I got it stripped down, I shaved the gear indicator window off the top and the linkage bump off the side of it with a cut off wheel, as the car used to be a column shift auto car and now is a floor Auto with reverse pattern Manual valve body. I filled the hole that was left behind with epoxy, smoothed it all out with sand paper. I metal etched the whole thing down after cleaning it with wax and greese remover then painted it up Black. The interior used to be blue origionaly but am going black and grey interior. I'm not real good at remembering to take pictures as I go, so there isn't a whole lot of detail in what I've just explained as far as pictures are concerned. I'm running out of things to do, so hopefully I can get the car in my brothers paint room to spray the underside with epoxy primer and raptor liner. Then the body work can begin. I Can hardly wait!!!! Unfortunatly, he is still working on his friends 51 chebby. He is doing an awesome jobe on it. It is about a $20,000 body work and paint job show car job. so, I'll have to be patient I suppose. Till next time.:burnout:

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