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prkid424
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Location: Wodbridge, VA
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 Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 6:19 am Post subject: Steering column support |
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does anyone know where I can get this or something similar?
Want to have some support of the column until i get a roll cage installed which will have a horizontal tube on the front hoop for the support. |
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Dale M.
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Location: Just a tiny bit west of Yosemite Valley
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 6:48 am Post subject: |
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Make one.... I used a exhaust pipe clamp and a short length of strap steel welded to clamp for a mounting tab....
Used idea form this picture I found somewhere on i-net...
Found this from Jegs...
And this...
And this Chevy Part...
This is not rocket science... And keep in mind nobody sees it except you....
Dale
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prkid424
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Location: Wodbridge, VA
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| Dale M. wrote: |
Make one.... I used a exhaust pipe clamp and a short length of strap steel welded to clamp for a mounting tab....
Used idea form this picture I found somewhere on i-net...
Found this from Jegs...
And this...
And this Chevy Part...
This is not rocket science... And keep in mind nobody sees it except you....
Dale |
Of course exhaust clamps....so obvious but I didn't even "see it". Time to search the scrap pile for a bit of sheet metal for that tab. That pic from Jegs is also interesting. May fab some thing like that. |
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tgodber
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Location: Okanagan Falls B.C. Canada
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Thanks for all the very helpful posts you make Dale!
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prkid424
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| Thanks for all the very helpful posts you make Dale! |
Ditto....my search queries through this forum usually include Dale. Much appreciate your contribution to the community. |
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BL3Manx
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Location: Northern California
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:43 am Post subject: |
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The upper end of the column is what needs the support. This steel frame ties the windshield frame, hood/dash, and body into a more rigid unit and gives the steering column a solid mounting point right behind the dash
http://www.meyersmanx.com/mmstore/store-classicdashframe.shtml
It all works even better with these brackets which fit in the channel of the new windshield frames, increasing its mounting rigidity.
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Dale M.
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Welded a plate to stiffener tube across body at upper end of column and you guessed it...Muffler clamp.
Dale
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