It was a good Sunday. Cade is going to be coming out on Sundays for the foreseeable future to help with the Valiant. We’re still working on getting the engine and transmission to its final location so I can get the mounts built. In the process we found we had an interference issue with the steering column.

column 1 by M Patterson, on Flickr

Fortunately it looks like it’s going to be a non-problem. The column in the Green car is a floor shift unit and considerably shorter. As it was a bottom of the line car when new, I suspect it originally came with either a column shift automatic or 3 on the tree. The column was probably changed out when it was built with the 508. Hopefully it was from another A body, but after looking at it I don’t think there will be any issues converting it for the EPAS electric power steering.

column 2 by M Patterson, on Flickr

For now we just pulled the steering column from the mock-up car. Cade’s tuning into a pretty decent mechanic and he sure fits under the dash better than I do.

The weather is supposed to be pretty decent this week so hopefully I’ll get some more done during the week.




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