Thread: 1929 Essex Highboy

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Still here guys and gals--------Can't keep a good man down!
Been tinkering, little here, little there, don'tchaknow? I made up two braces for the radiator and grille shell a while ago. I didn't have my camera out in garage when I did them, Daughter had them at a little league football game! I will do a post later on with explanation and after the fact photos. But for now, I took my Ranger steering column and with a hacksaw---made it shorter! haaahaaa. Well --------- it worked!
I cut the tube off above the accordian collapsible section, enough to make the column as short as I needed it above. Then pulled it off the shaft, although not as easy as it sounds------- Then I cut the tube off right at the upper end of the crinkle area, then cut the mounting plate off the end. Then I cut the shaft off at the distance I had calculated earlier. It is just a hollow tube. Then I took a scrap section of steering, a universal with a piece of double D shaft on it. From this I cut the double D long enough to go inside my universal on the essex and up into the hollow column shaft. After indexing all this so the wheel would be oriented properly when done, I marked everything, then pulled it all apart. Then I drilled and tapped a hole in the side of the hollow tube to correspond with the flat on the double D section, inserted that piece into the tube and put in a bolt in threaded hole and tightened it up/down!! Then I took the stick welder and welded the double D piece around the end of the tube shaft and double D section. Then I cut the lock bolt off on the side, drilled into it a bit for countersink then welded the hole in, making the cut off bolt a part of the shaft (so it can't ever come loose).