Re: [Amc-list] Steering box changes, early 60s to later

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Did/does someone not make shims? I'd swear I'd seen them somewhere.
> I had a buddy who made his for a Ford F-250 gear swap. He used thin steel stock wrapped around the stud and cranked it down tight. It never wore out in the several years I knew of it being setup that way.

In fact, the more I think of it, .010 shim stock carefully
wrapped without wrinkling, cut for zero overlap on the final
turn, then trimmed, would probably be 100% safe and wouldn't
change torque. There would be some "air space" but since it's
a taper that would compress out just fine. It'd be disposable
basically. Somewhat kludgey but a safe, reliable and repeatable
kludge.
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