The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Engine Shop how do you adapt an org. steer. column to a camaro gear box?

any help or direction to an old topic that explains this. i would love to keep my original or else i have to spend 500 precious dollars on the ididitwithmuchobucks co.

I can't help with original to camaro but salvage yard columns can be purchsed $50 and up from PickuParts,etc. Wiring harnesses can be ordered to match up to the new column plugs for turn signals, etc. Good luck.

Here is what you have to do.

You pick a distance past the toe board on the engine side to cut off the outer steering column housing. You leave the inner shaft longer to stick out past the outer housing so you can connect a Borgeson or Flaming River Universal joint to the inner shaft. Go to either a Bearing Supply Co. or say a Lawn Mower Repair Facility to obtain a bearing to support the inner shaft in the outer housing. I have one bearing here with the Part # 6203-RS. You want to be sure and make up a bracket to support the column shaft at the toe board. Some people just take a piece of L-stock channel and bolt it to the firewall and then take a u-bolt to secure the column to the L-stock. You then call up either Borgeson or Flamming River and give them the spline count on you steering box and the inner shaft size of the column to order the u-joints. If you take a measurement of the distance from the steering shaft to the inner shaft of the column minus the lenth of the u-joints you can get a pretty good idea of the length of shaft required to connect the column to the steering box. Keep in mind the working angle of the u-joints when your designing the shaft.

chevy 1 thanks. , thats sounds like the best way. i will see if my welder who has the truck now will do that for me.i'm using a gennie shifter for ky automatic and really dont want to have to deal with eliminating the hadle form a van column. could you take any pics of this procedure? ididit sells a firewall braket for onlyu twenty bucks so maybe i'll order that. also, my local junk yard has an old hot rod guy that owns it and suggested i add another core to the stock radiator. will this provide enough cooling or should i just shell out the 275 for a catalog one? thanks.

The 6203-rs bearing is a pilot bearing used on most semi trucks.( I have changed several of these!)

i tracked down that bearing and it looks like im heading that way. i need to know more though. like how does the bearing sit in the shaft?chevy 1 could you give me a call and leave your number on the machine. i'll call you on my dime. i'm intimidated about trying this but would love to get some details. do you have a digital camera?13104576129