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<blockquote data-quote="clemsonjeep" data-source="post: 694880" data-attributes="member: 6317"><p>I finally ditched the factory steering column since it was at the wrong angle and the wheel was too high. Most times I was looking through the wheel rather than over it.</p><p></p><p>Since I prefer to keep the fluids in the engine bay I knew I wasn't moving the orbital inside. I started looking for options in the SxS market. Quite a few of them have simple columns and several even have tilt steering. In the end I went with simple and effective. Of course I immediately set out to overcomplicate the hell out of it.</p><p></p><p>I picked up a piece of 1.5" OD tubing with .088" wall and a piece of 3/4" rod. This allowed me to use some riding lawnmower wheel bearings. They' pretty common and cheap. I got mine off of Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01NCQ9FA1/ref=ya_aw_oh_bia_dp?ie=UTF8&psc=1</p><p></p><p>I already had a quick disconnect installed and had modified it to mount on the factory splines. That meant I needed to modify the 3/4" rod to accept the splined section and while I was at it I'd modify the firewall end to accept the end the steering ujoint fits. When I first attempted to put the 3/4" rod in my mini lathe I found out it only had a 5/8" bore...****. I sucked it up and bored the 3-jaw to 3/4" and rolled on. What I ended up with were two ends with press fit splined sections. I was pretty sure these wouldn't ever spin inside the rod but just to be sure I drilled them and installed roll pins for extra insurance. I went one step further and turned some snap ring grooves at either end to locate the 3/4" shaft in the column as well as to ensure the bearings can't work their way out...they're a hammer tap type of press fit at this point.</p><p></p><p>My original plan was just to notch the lower dash bar and the stock dash crossmember to to accept the 1.5" column but that would mean I'd need to loosen up the orbital to remove the steering shaft and if for some reason I don't like the length of the new column it'd be a pain to shorten it up. So...next step in overcomplicating things was to build some clamps out of some 1.75" .120 wall DOM I had laying around. Then that meant I needed a 1.75" hole saw to renotch the dash bars. </p><p></p><p>Since the stock column had the plastic cover I had made the opening in my alumnium dash fairly large so I also had to make a filler plate and add some threaded holes to attach it. </p><p></p><p>I think it came out nice...</p><p></p><p><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/bb075bc64894d5da374a9ecd70cc1b7a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/4d91c2ca3608b5260d1fcbe97c888318.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/dfe13f0c594d0faa6715c02082a13e8a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/d6420da36eef602596bcee8a7cd44bd0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/5dea3f4d20b8f321c0a352a34a051dab.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/8794e783adce8a1dd2c1ee1c93a116c6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/aea3d488c8858f7330c5f0e96a4284fc.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/ba095f3a36a57cd0f9943f07f373e321.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/fc16305487e22e3c0e7bd230b2b365e6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clemsonjeep, post: 694880, member: 6317"] I finally ditched the factory steering column since it was at the wrong angle and the wheel was too high. Most times I was looking through the wheel rather than over it. Since I prefer to keep the fluids in the engine bay I knew I wasn't moving the orbital inside. I started looking for options in the SxS market. Quite a few of them have simple columns and several even have tilt steering. In the end I went with simple and effective. Of course I immediately set out to overcomplicate the hell out of it. I picked up a piece of 1.5" OD tubing with .088" wall and a piece of 3/4" rod. This allowed me to use some riding lawnmower wheel bearings. They' pretty common and cheap. I got mine off of Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01NCQ9FA1/ref=ya_aw_oh_bia_dp?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I already had a quick disconnect installed and had modified it to mount on the factory splines. That meant I needed to modify the 3/4" rod to accept the splined section and while I was at it I'd modify the firewall end to accept the end the steering ujoint fits. When I first attempted to put the 3/4" rod in my mini lathe I found out it only had a 5/8" bore...****. I sucked it up and bored the 3-jaw to 3/4" and rolled on. What I ended up with were two ends with press fit splined sections. I was pretty sure these wouldn't ever spin inside the rod but just to be sure I drilled them and installed roll pins for extra insurance. I went one step further and turned some snap ring grooves at either end to locate the 3/4" shaft in the column as well as to ensure the bearings can't work their way out...they're a hammer tap type of press fit at this point. My original plan was just to notch the lower dash bar and the stock dash crossmember to to accept the 1.5" column but that would mean I'd need to loosen up the orbital to remove the steering shaft and if for some reason I don't like the length of the new column it'd be a pain to shorten it up. So...next step in overcomplicating things was to build some clamps out of some 1.75" .120 wall DOM I had laying around. Then that meant I needed a 1.75" hole saw to renotch the dash bars. Since the stock column had the plastic cover I had made the opening in my alumnium dash fairly large so I also had to make a filler plate and add some threaded holes to attach it. I think it came out nice... [IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/bb075bc64894d5da374a9ecd70cc1b7a.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/4d91c2ca3608b5260d1fcbe97c888318.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/dfe13f0c594d0faa6715c02082a13e8a.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/d6420da36eef602596bcee8a7cd44bd0.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/5dea3f4d20b8f321c0a352a34a051dab.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/8794e783adce8a1dd2c1ee1c93a116c6.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/aea3d488c8858f7330c5f0e96a4284fc.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/ba095f3a36a57cd0f9943f07f373e321.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180109/fc16305487e22e3c0e7bd230b2b365e6.jpg[/IMG] Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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