The Great Pumpkin - '71 Duster
Now that the paint is 'done', I have to make a choice about the steering shaft.
Seems like I have three options;
I stopped here because I didn't want to look at this crap anymore. I also need to sleep on how to proceed with the steering shaft. My impatience cost me two days plus I'm probably going to have to take the coupler off the shaft now anyway.
More to come.
Now that the paint is 'done', I have to make a choice about the steering shaft.
Seems like I have three options;
- Drill a hole in the original column-shift shaft and hope it's straight and in the right spot
- Use my extra floor-shift shaft even though it's for a power steering application and is already two inches shorter than a manual steering shaft. I would have to knock the lower cross pin out and drill a new hole for the coupler pin. It winds up being almost the same length as a cut-down manual shaft.
- Swap the top half of the previous floor shift shaft into the column shift shaft.
I stopped here because I didn't want to look at this crap anymore. I also need to sleep on how to proceed with the steering shaft. My impatience cost me two days plus I'm probably going to have to take the coupler off the shaft now anyway.
More to come.