Steering column help

[XcYZ]

I think I have this figured out, but I'm curious as to what others have to say. My car has a standard, non-tilt steering column which means that the steering shaft is hollow and the rag joint coupler is one piece with the shaft. If it was a tilt column, the rag joint coupler would slide off the solid splined shaft.

I need to adapt the column to u-joint to couple it to the AGR rack. One option would be to get a Uni-steer boltt on adapter for the rag joint. I could get a tilt column (not a bad idea). Or could I swap out the steering column shaft?

I've never messed with steering columns so I'm interested in all options.

Oh, for reference, the AGR rack has a 3/4 - 36 spline pinion shaft.

[907rs]

I'd opt for the tilt column, Scott. Being a tall guy it makes a huge difference upon ingress and egress.

[XcYZ]

That's what I'm leaning towards, Bill. With the Corbeau seats and the cage, a tilt column would probably be pretty handy.

[Todds69]

Now the question is which column are you going to buy. I'm going to be replacing mine here pretty soon, so someone to work out all the kinks would be great.

[Speedster]

Originally Posted by Todds69

Now the question is which column are you going to buy. I'm going to be replacing mine here pretty soon, so someone to work out all the kinks would be great.

I chose a Flaming River stainless tilt column and the workmanship is excellent.

[Payton King]

Scott,

You are a tall dude and the seats that you are running have high seat bolsters, you will need the extra room a tilt would provide to get in and out of the car....don't remember if you are running door bars or not.

I went with Flaming river tilt column and they have all of the tricky stainless u-joints and shafts to link up to the ARG rack. When or if you get the flaming river column make sure you opt for the $60 option of having the dimmer switch put on the end of the blinker stalk so you can eliminate the foot contol.

The columns come in either full polish stainless or one that you paint. The painted one is actually mostly stainless, just not polished.

On another note, the D shaft that you will need to get that goes between the U-joints on the rack and the column will come and you will need to cut to fit...which is good, because it will allow you to get the distance(depth) of the wheel/column where you want it which for you may be close to the dash.

The flaming river unit is also about the same size in diameter as the stock unit so the Marquez dash stuff will work.

[Musclerodz]

Contact Borgeson, since that is there specialty. If you opt for the column, I would lean toward Flaming River as well because of their collapsable column for added saftey.

Mike