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

[Kelly Hardie <ramblinguy.kelly@xxxxxxxxx>]

You just reminded me of a favorite passage in Zen and the Art of 
Motorcycle Maintenance, when Phaedrus cuts up an aluminum beer can for 
shim stock to secure the handlebars on his buddy's BMW, and Phaedrus' 
phriend phreaks out  cause he sees the material for what it IS (an old 
Coors can) rather than for what it DOES...

Kelly

Tom Jennings wrote:
> 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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