Steering Linkage Fabrication Using Multiple U Joints For My Chevy Coupe And SBC 350

My Mustang II U Joint finally arrived, so it's time to get some steering on my Chevrolet Coupe

[@72FrostyOne]

You saved my bacon with this video

[@leonardwalters154]

Don't need breaks yet zip tie the headlights on and let's go for a ride!!! Looks great!!😎😁😁😁👍😎

[@richardherringer8491]

Love the progress and the updates!!! May i suggest drilling through the 1/2'' rod and making a pin for the steering shaft, I have had issues with mine popping out after hitting large bumps in the road and then not having steering at all . Apin would be a nice mechanical safety for that.

[@ScottRods]

Thanks Richard. I need to remove the rack at some point to replace the rubber boots, so I'll drill a hole then. Cheers.

[@stephenbyrne3793]

Well done, slow and steady!

[@aussiejas6599]

Hey Dave, nice SPECIAL bit's wink wink..

[@eltongomes2894]

Ir'd crazy car, bealtiful, and fantastic

[@floridian7143]

Enjoy your sharing! May I make a suggestion, clean the paint to bare metal before any welding it makes a stronger, non contaminated weld. You need to do that around steering and around hot rods to be safe.

[@ScottRods]

Thanks, yes I did grind it down first.

[@michaelvandenhoy1021]

Thanks for sharing this. I will have to do the same on my pontiac coupe.

[@ronsgarage4230]

Steering looks real good Dave.

[@ScottRods]

Thanks Ron. I can probably improve it, but it's too damn hot right now to spend the time on it.

[@joeroyalgarage7995]

Good bit of engineering there! Looks good.

[@ScottRods]

It's pretty chunky, but I threw on the front fender and it clears it all, so hopefully It will be ok, till I figure out something better.

[@brentcrawford7609]

Looks like it should work just fine

[@hookshotrods7161]

hey Dave thank you I am glad you can use them

[@jamiewaddell1598]

Dave looks good m8 just need clamp on bottom of coloun top clamp and it will be braw as fu.k m8 well done 👍👍

[@punkinsgarageandpaint8299]

Kkmjust mount something under the dash . Cut the steering shaft under dash. Put a gear on it move to over about 6 " make another steering shaft with a gear and go through the firewall to the hole in the frame . The shafts with the gears can have a heavy duty chain on it. All hidden under the dash and safer than all these joints!

[@HeavyPedalGarage]

sweet! Looking good!

[@TheBlaqDeval]

Great work on the steering and kinda worried with the so many links on the middle... Yet it still functions... Only comment is about the metal bar stuffed into the black frame... And how it hits all around on rotation... If there could be some sort of a bearing to be stuffed to avoid friction between metal bar and frame that would be much safer and less noisy every time u steer...

[@ScottRods]

It's not actually hitting anything.

[@TheBlaqDeval]

@@ScottRods thought it does with all noise it did when you rotated it... I know all about the tight gaps but no fan of it coming out the frame though... Just an opinion.

[@ScottRods]

@@TheBlaqDeval Hey, I pre-warned you about the noise hehehe. It wasn't attached to the firewall, so that's where the noise came from.

[@TheBlaqDeval]

@@ScottRods well hey... Im the shifter riser guy and see your project as a public project like we are building it with you... So im underlining stuff like if its my own car and want it best it can be really!

[@2leesproductions]

They should have specified press fit for that ujoint lol

[@ScottRods]

hahaha, I didn't have a clear shot with the hammer, so it was a million tiny taps.

[@2leesproductions]

I know how that is

[@ted5415]

Six weeks on a donkey and the first thing you do is beat it with a hammer! A little lube usually helps. It made for an interesting visual and sound effect anyway.

[@ScottRods]

@@ted5415 I greased it up first. To be honest, I didn't care, I waited so long it was GOING to fit one way or another.

[@davemoulding7109]

You should have inserted a tubing thru frame for shaft to work smooth and have no binds

[@peteJoseph-x3h]

Looks like 3/4” double D shaft, not 1/2”

[@ScottRods]

Yep, you're right

[@aussiejas6599]

not to Shaw about running your steering through the chassis.??

[@ScottRods]

That section is new, and thicker than the original frame, and it's boxed. Should be fine.

[@paullpatterson8709]

You would be miles ahead if you use a locknut on the heim joint to keep them from swiveling in the nuts you welded in place. Decent bit of engineering otherwise, Dave

[@ndeep45]

I am just not sure if that's going to be legal .. crazy set up

[@ScottRods]

Hey Bill. That's the least hokey I could make it. There was no other route available. Remember...custom frame, custom exhaust, custom steering rack and non standard motor. Had to make it work somehow.

[@ndeep45]

@SCOTT I JUST WAS WORRIED ABOUT THE LINKAGE AND BINDING...

[@ScottRods]

@@ndeep45 I might add another rod end on the section just after the rack U Joint. I've checked for binding and so far it's ok. Not ideal, but until I figure out a better solution this will need to do.

[@ndeep45]

@@ScottRods I was trying to think of what I had seen on earlier rods like at Irontrapgarage does. Like where the steering buckle comes out the side of the car. But again that wouldn't do for your application

[@ScottRods]

@@ndeep45 Yeah, those setups are for old style steering boxes with cross-over steering.

[@TheCanadianBubba]

No rag joint... you certainly will have a lot of road "feel"

[@TheCanadianBubba]

You can always revisit your design after driving it if you find it annoying.

[@ScottRods]

@@TheCanadianBubba Does the Crown Vic have a rag joint?

[@TheCanadianBubba]

Do not know right off, maybe just a collapsible column in the Crown Vik's... Ford problems, don't got em' : ]

[@MrBenh1976]

You can drive it from the passenger seat like if you were in Europe then your wife could have the eleteical seat lol

[@ScottRods]

But then she would be in charge of the gas pedal.

[@miked1298]

Time will tell but you may regret not putting a damper in.

[@ScottRods]

Do I need a damper on a rack and pinion?

[@miked1298]

@@ScottRods I think it will transfer the vibration up the shaft. Just my opinion.

[@ScottRods]

@@miked1298 hmmm, interesting point. I'll watch out for that.

[@davidwilfong5820]

Sorry I couldn't think this slow another video of someone's brain fart

[@ScottRods]

Sorry, I couldn't understand your poor English.

[@paullpatterson8709]

You would be miles ahead if you use a locknut on the heim joint to keep them from swiveling in the nuts you welded in place. Decent bit of engineering otherwise, Dave

[@ScottRods]

The heim joints are solid, it's the swivels that are swivelling lol. Not sure what you mean.

[@ScottRods]

Oh, actually, when I first tested it, the heim joints were not tightened down, that's probably where you were seeing movement.