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Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Much better Glenn. Now you can stomp on it all you like and not worry about something letting go.
Don

Now that you have the bolt vs welding problem fixed - I hope you did a fit up with the engine in place and the body on as Chebbies are real tight to the firewall -

I have another item that I may have discussed before(I'm too lazy to reread this thread) and it's the steering connector to the steering box. It WILL split - I'm aware of three including mine that did. Mickey's answer to me was "Hmm, that's never happened before. I'm going to have to look at the machining and the cutter".

This is what I did. I got a race car type U-joint from Speedway and had it machined to fit my steering column shaft, pinned in place(photo doesn't show it tho) then I used an aluminum Corvair box that I had that had a splined input. If you have the type with 2 pins, you would have to do a thru pin arrangement or other method to attach the shaft. No big problem - as long as it is safer then Mickey's.

Also, the front suspension bolts don't have cotter pins. You need to drill them and replace the nuts with castellated. One of them is bound to fall off - I dropped the drag link bolt but the suspension caster kept the car straight.