66 Dart GT HT Whatsitgonnabe?

moparmat2000 said
Hi Anders,

For some reason when i saw that, i thought why not dissassemble the column. Then with a cutoff wheel, chop that goofy assed thing off, file the metal slightly concave, fill it with JB weld, do some body work to it and paint it. Essentially eliminate it. That is unless you want to have one key to unlock the column, and another to start the car. Seems like an inconvienence to me. I would remove it. I did something similar with my column. It was a 3 speed manual on the column. I cut the shifter nub cast into the collar off, filed everything concave, cleaned the old grease out of the cavity, and plugged it with JB weld aluminum epoxy paste. Then i filed it to shape, smoothed it out with a skim coat of auto body filler, sanded and applied a high build sandable primer. Then wet sanded and applied a nice semigloss black enamel. You cannot tell that a.column shift was even there.

Also noticed your craftsman wrenches. Do you have Sears in Sweden? I have a set of craftsman SAE wrenches my dad got me for Christmas when i was 12 years old to get me started. They are inventoried in my tool chest at work, and i use them every day. I am 46 years old now. I will probably use these till the day i die. Great wrenches.

Matt

Well, I'm certainly not planning on using the steering column lock for the reason I mentioned. But I don't really see any reason to go through the trouble of removing it either.

What I would like, however, is a collapsible steering column to make the car a little safer to drive ...

The wrenches are my dad's. He bought them in the US (no, we don't have Sears here but I'm quite familiar with them) to use on his kit airplane ten years ago or so. He bought an almost completed Falco that sat in the shop of his company for a number of years before he finally sold it. He's into flying and still maintains his license even though he hardly ever flies.

A project you work on is a good thing. If it just sits there and stares at you, it turns into something negative.

Anyway, he bought those shorties and a set of weird semi-ratchet ones. Pretty useless in the open end but the ring end is good and they are nice and long for good leverage. They do seem like good quality to me.