Steve-o-08's Silverado Build Thread

[kingcrunch]

Question:
What is the diameter of the steering quickeners housing? Especially the part you slid into the steering column (i assume you made that black bushing yourself?).
Thank you!



I really like that idea and i am rolling it around my head. Maybe that's something for the D170 as well (the Ram steering rack has 2.75 : 1 steering ratio).

[Steve-O-08]

That quickener is pretty damn slick. Thanks for the write up on it

Thank you very much.

Sorry to go off topic, but I think you have the same butane torch that a buddy of mine did.
His exploded in his hand and removed his right thumb.
After seeing the photos of his right hand and arm, I showed the photos to the guys in my shop, and it turns out almost HALF of them have the same torch.
I can find and post the photos of the torch if you'd like to make sure.

Oh man... We have two of them at the shop. I'll definitely look into that.

steve nice work it looks great like all of your work always does, how does it feel /work ? have you had a chance to try it with other wheel yet? looking forward to next update

Thanks a lot. I just drove the truck to work this morning. The steering is definitely stiffer. I'm not sure if I might be getting some slight binding on one of the u-joints. Going to be trying a larger wheel later today and see how that does.

Question:
What is the diameter of the steering quickeners housing? Especially the part you slid into the steering column (i assume you made that black bushing yourself?).
Thank you!

I really like that idea and i am rolling it around my head. Maybe that's something for the D170 as well (the Ram steering rack has 2.75 : 1 steering ratio).

The Quickener body that slides into the column is 1.250". I did make the bushing myself on the lathe. It's made of a stick of Delrin I had left over from when I made my leaf spring shackle bushings. I would refer you to a picture of those but I haven't had time to update them yet.

[Bob in St. Louis]

Thank you very much.


Oh man... We have two of them at the shop. I'll definitely look into that.

Yea man. Here's an image he found of the one he had that blew up.
Too cheap of an item to risk it.

The pics of his arm where the "napalm" burnt hole in his flesh were on Photobucket, so they're gone.