Steering Shaft between the column to the rack

[LeoVampire]

I need to get my hands on a stearing shaft to give Borgeson to have a new one made.

They are running into problems getting one to work out without having to unbolt the rack & pinion to put a new shaft in.

So they asked me to get a stearing shaft in their hands to work with and use as a model.

I know there is a guy up in Buffalow N.Y. area with a couple of wrecked one's anyone know his name so I can P.M. him to see if he has a good one?

[Joe Walsh]

Send a 'PM' to Brian/'Silversurfer'...he has 3 wrecked Marauders in his salvage yard in Upper Marlboro, Md.
All the engines are long gone, but 2 of them still have a lot of parts on them.

[LeoVampire]

Send a 'PM' to Brian/'Silversurfer'...he has 3 wrecked Marauders in his salvage yard in Upper Marlboro, Md.
All the engines are long gone, but 2 of them still have a lot of parts on them.

I will send him a PM now thanks. BTW is that Silversurfer03 ?????? It's the only name found.

[Joe Walsh]

I will send him a PM now thanks. BTW is that Silversurfer03 ?????? It's the only name found.

Yep..'SILVERSURFER03'...sorry for the confusion.

[Zack]

Why are you having a new steering shaft made?

[justbob]

They are the original makers of our steering shafts and offered up a better fix to solve our header issues for fairly cheap so I read.

[RR|Suki]

They are the original makers of our steering shafts and offered up a better fix to solve our header issues for fairly cheap so I read.

That would be cool, I could replace the one I've made all ugly by grinding at it :lol: PS ask them if the lower knuckle could be revised as well instead of being the L shape deal it is now, that would be sweet :D

[Joe Walsh]

I still think that you are going through a lot of time, trouble, and effort because the headers weren't welded up right in the first place.

[LeoVampire]

Ya both SW and Kooks screwed up on making the headers but I have no intentions of putting a replacment header in to solve this problem some of us are having.

As to the knuckle joints they are going with small round joints that are smaller and have no protrutions that can interfear with the headers.

The joints will be simular to one of these depending on what they come up with.


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[ImpalaSlayer]

cant wait to see it. if i had a shaft laying around id send it on up

[LeoVampire]

Silversurfer03 / Brian had one that was in perfect condition.

Paid him and it is being shiped direct to Borgeson to get it there faster.

As always thanks for the help guys!! :beer:

BTW here is an example of a fix they came up with for the 2004 Mustangs for a work around project on them.

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So as you can see they can come up with just about anything needed.

[ImpalaSlayer]

Silversurfer03 / Brian had one that was in perfect condition.

Paid him and it is being shiped direct to Borgeson to get it there faster.

As always thanks for the help guys!! :beer:

awesome!:banana2:

[cougar9150]

Keep at it Leo, can't wait to hear about and see the final version.

[LeoVampire]

Borgeson asked me for the other half of the stearing shaft.

Aparently the upper half of the shaft easily unbolts from the stearing colom like the lower half does.

They need the upper half to work on the knuckles for the guys who have a problem with the Kooks headers.

So I contacted SilverSurfer03 to get that part off to them as well.

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Aparently our shafts are simular to this 04 Mustang design. As you can see there is an indented slot in the upper shaft that holds the knuckles the lower shaft slide's into.

So the replacment when it is done will be a shaft that runs from the rack all the way inside of the dash to clear both the SW headers as well as the Kooks headers.

[ImpalaSlayer]

cant wait!

[RR|Suki]

Very nice, I'm looking forward to the finished shaft

[LeoVampire]

cant wait!

There are 2 reasons for their wanting to make an entire shaft for our cars.

#One to address the 2 seperate issues that have been comming up between the 2 differnt sets of long tube headers both Kooks and SW.

#Two they still want the original safty design to come into play incase of a head on accident so our car's safty specs stay in play where it will break apart instead of driving the stearing wheel into your chest.

[LeoVampire]

Just so you guys know what the other part of our shafts look like taken out of the car.

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SilverSurfer03 contacted me again today sent me this pic and is now sending it to Borgenson for the rest of the mockup on it.

Sorry this project is taking so long guys but I hope we have a new shaft available for us with long tube headers in as short a time as possable.

My money flow is slow right now so I have to go as it comes.

[SILVERSURFER03]

im glad i could help you out dave it's on it's way ..... the SHAFT that is LOL

[LeoVampire]

Sorry about this but after going to Borganson on Friday to try another test fit it was a bust again.

This is what we came up with. I am going to have to buy some parts from them, colapsable adjustable shafts, which we do have in the car already, some joints and so forth then I have to do a mock up in my Marauder to come up with a working shaft. The part of the shaft that goes into our cars is a 3 part colapsable shaft or telascoping if you like that word better already.

Once I do this I will bring the mock up shaft to them and they will produce it and add a part number and price to the shaft.

With Carlisle comming up I can not buy what I need to do the mock up as I am looking @ $300.00 in parts to do this.

So nothing more is going to happen till the end of June @ least. I will let you know once I can buy the parts and start working on the new design for our cars.

But in the mean time the guys with the kooks header problem will need to take pictures and so a bit of measuring for me so I can make sure this mock up works out for you as well as us SW guys too.

So basicly I will design this myself with actual parts to work on our cars and then Borganson can make a production shaft for everyone. They will do the welding and finishing to make sure it is perfect and give a choice on polished and non polished.

I will probably be bringing out the telescoping shaft out of the fire wall past the headers then have a joint on the end with a small solid shaft going to the rack with a joint on it as well to make this work.

But I do not know for sure until I get in there and do it once I have pics and measurments needed.

This is the only way Borganson will work on it further as they feel they are already out enough money on the project with no working results.

So this might not be a done deal till late July early August from the looks of it. So sorry about the delays but right now it is unavoidable.

[musclemerc]

That thing got expensive real quick. I hope you get it figured out

[LeoVampire]

That thing got expensive real quick. I hope you get it figured out

Beside's the salvage yard stearing shaft I had to get sent to them as well yes for me it is adding up fast.

The reason for the high cost in parts to me right now to design the shaft is I need to buy enough on hand differnt parts to work with in desinging it in the first place.

The final product will be cheaper because not everything will be needed seeing the will know exactly what will work to make it happen.

So the final results for anyone buying it will be a lot less.

I have to buy 2 types of teloscoping shafts longer than nesesary in the end, a couple differnt types of joints and so forth for the mock up.