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| | | | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 1 | I'm just starting on a '59 Apache 32 fleetside longbed. One of the previous owners swaped a later 350/350 combo and disc brake front clip under it. Don't know the year,but I'd like to lose the ugly plastic steering wheel and column mounted shifter and ignition key. Can I "adapt" an older single tube column to a later power steering box? Thanks for any help.
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I put a '76 Nova column with power steering into a '51 truck. The column was supported under the dash and with a flange attached to the floor board/toe board.
It would seem to me that you could reinstall the stock column which is probably supported under the dash also. If you cut the outer tube and fastened a flange to it that could be attached to the floor board or toe board that you would have it by the short hairs.
The outer tube would be shortened and secured while the steering shaft would protrude through the firewall and accept a u-joint for the intermediate shaft that went to the power steering box.
You would have to fabricate a lower shaft bearing, or move the old one.
It sounds plausible to me, but I haven't seen a '59 Apache column.
Stuart
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 46 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 46 | Ellwood,
I too have a 59 fleetside longbed that the PO adapted the orig.(I think) column to a power steering box from a '74 k10 series truck. The inter. shaft and ujoints are very ugly and seem to be home made. I plan on contacting borgeson (sp.?) to get new parts from the end of the col. to the box. It does not appear that the orig. column was modified at all. I'll take 4 fried chickens!
Jeff
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