 Late Vs. early steering shafts, Didn't know there was a difference |
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| Phoenix-MN |
 May 17 2013, 10:31 AM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 927 Joined: 23-January 04 From: ST. Bonifacius,MN Member No.: 1,590  |
Ever since I put my steering wheel and shaft in it's had an annoying "over center" notchy feel to it. Well I deceided to fix it and tore it apart today. I had read some threads to swap the shaft end for end to correct the problem but that doesn't index the u-joints any differently. I dug out a shaft from my spare parts to compare and the index slots are about 90 deg. different between the two.
 Anyone else run into this before? Is there also a difference in the u-joints? Paul |
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| SirAndy |
May 17 2013, 11:17 AM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 42,483 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(Phoenix-MN @ May 17 2013, 09:31 AM)  Anyone else run into this before? Is there also a difference in the u-joints? The geometry is different between early and late cars. When i installed the '74 steering column in my '70 car i had to re-notch the shaft because everything is aligned differently. It was a *lot* more work than i had anticipated. The mounts for the steering column are different early to late and the u-joint on the back of the column is not in the same exact place. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) |
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Phoenix-MN Late Vs. early steering shafts May 17 2013, 10:31 AM
Phoenix-MN Thanks, that makes sense. Mine is a '71 and I... May 17 2013, 12:08 PM MrHyde Hmmm anybody know when the changeover was ??? I ha... May 17 2013, 12:51 PM Jeff Hail 1970 to early 71 a different column was used on th... May 17 2013, 07:44 PM 914Sixer I read this yesterday and I went out an looked at ... May 18 2013, 06:52 AM Jeff Hail I have already differentiated the column differenc... May 18 2013, 09:01 AM
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Update.... I have put everything back together w... May 18 2013, 11:21 AM |
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