I made an adapter from 3/4" Double D-section to the spline required for my
rack. Tony Garmey reworked the setup and made it prettier and more reliable,
but the adapter was just a sleeve that both bits got welded into with a good
quality TIG weld. I used their nice stainless needle bearing joints and billet
steel 3/4" pillow blocks.
Not hard to fabricate, hell for strong, no shake and no wobble. Gotta love all
that. Tony passed the shaft through the cowl roll bar -- I had it going over
that. In a production car I'd use one of their firewall flange bearings and
then a second block just before the first universal.
I drilled dimples into the shaft and ran the setscrews into the dimples before
locking everything down. Going nowhere. I've had my steering come apart on me
once. I can tell you for certain it's not fun. Ain't happening again.
On Oct 14, 2012, at 7:42 PM, Tony Drews <tony@tonydrews.com> wrote:
> Any clues on which borgeson stuff fits the splines on the steering rack?
Looks like the shaft would be 9/16 - the only one shown is 9/16 26 spline, and
the other end would need a custom shaft (I have a choice of 3/4" smooth bore
or 3/4" 36 spline it appears).
>
> Looks like the attachment is more of a "set screw" type of deal. Is that
better?
>
> I'd love to update to something strong and reliable.
>
> Thanks, Tony
>
> At 08:56 PM 10/14/2012, Bill Babcock wrote:
>> Don't. Switch the whole thing over to Borgeson stuff. IMHO that's another
thing I wouldn't leave in the hands of designers who have been dead for 40
years.
>>
>> On Oct 14, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Tony Drews <tony@tonydrews.com> wrote:
>>
>> > My steering shaft has two u-joints in it. The lower one is a big beefy
cast thing that I bought from Moss to replace the big beefy cast thing that
was there before. The upper one isn't quite as heavy duty looking but does a
much better job of actually clamping onto the shaft. I've tightened the sh**
out of the lower big beefy one and it's still not as tightly clamped as I'd
like.
>> >
>> > So... Where can I buy alternate u-joints for the TR-4 steering shaft?
>> >
>> > Look forward to the advice.
>> >
>> > Tony Drews
>> >
>> > PS - article on front suspension swap to TR-6 stuff is still coming.
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