We Shortened My Steering Column! ** 1965 Ford Falcon
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- We spent a weekend with Falcon expert Jerry Kratz in his shop, and he showed us how to modify a custom length steering column for my 1965 Ford Falcon.
If you need work done or parts for your classic car or Falcon, talk to Jerry Kratz at KP Automotive in North Wales, PA
www.kpautomotive.com/
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0:00 Intro
0:33 BRUNT Workwear
1:57 My Seating Position
2:45 Disassembly
5:12 Removing the Steering Box
5:45 Jerry's Plan
7:20 Steering Box Install
8:20 Using a Blasting Cabinet
9:09 Modifying the Column
11:29 Fabricating a Firewall Plate
14:11 Shortening the Shaft
14:52 Cutting the DD End
15:56 Making the Column Support
18:16 First time Seeing TIG Welding
19:04 Final Fiitting
20:36 Painting
21:59 Final Assembly
24:16 The New Sitting Position
That drawer full of vise-grips was impressive. Ellie needs to visit Derek and build a Falcon burnout car for Holley!
Making lots of friends .
Wow! That column turned out awesome Ellie. You can definitely tell Jerry is a pro. 💪
Girl!!! I am 46 years old and I think you rock for doing all this resto with your pops. Right on!!!
Very great Job and a very nice Video ❤️👍
Wow! Nice Job!
Great stuff y'all! Thanks!
very interesting episode guys !
Impressive project as usual. And, I learned something. I did not know there exists special drill sizes for holes that are going to be tapped. I need to find one of those rigs from my drill press, too. Keep up the good work!
Having a blast cab is a must when working with old stuff. At my old job I constantly skipped lunch to blast parts for my dirtbikes I was restoring. Best time to paint too on the bare metal surface before the rust flashes over.
Thanks for this video, Ellie. I’m building a 1948 Ford Anglia that has “trafficators” and the controls are in the center of horn
Awesome job Ellie you and Carl have come a long way it's turning out beautifully, can't wait to see what next . 👍
I hope you are enjoying Carl even MORE now that you can more comfortably grip your steering wheel. Again…I enjoy that fact that YOU installed three-point safety harnesses in Carl. All I had in the ‘60s was a lap belt. I’ve only owned cars with steering columns that adjusted for rake only; I’ve never even driven a car with a column that could be adjusted for length. Carl is now adjusted to fit YOU! To me, that makes Carl a even more closely-matched and intimate friend of yours. Enjoy your drives! Aloha!❤
Great job, I'm glad I waited to the end to comment and you got to get rid of the old column shift arm.
Ha! Yes! I was really surprised with how good it looked without the column shift. (Spoiler alert--we're putting in a floor shift in the next episode)
Awesome Ellie, what a great guy Jerry is to help out 👍‼️
hi Ellie, i have a ford falcon too, my car is 1961, i am from venezuela, but i return the next week,i love your channel, yuor fresh stile, and passion are wonderfull, i make many jobs on these, but, i never registred on video, your proyect its a restauration , but the mine ist like a slepper, body work like original, but under the hood, i want put a 5.0 liters fuel inyected, from ford explorer,like than one that you show on one video, i hope can speak more on the future, i respect your labor nice proyect go, go ,go ,go
Man, I missed this when it first came out. As always very comprehensive and very informative. Great job guys!
I tried messing with my tilt steering column ONCE. Tiny little ball bearings fell out of it....took half a day to figure it out and get it back together. Inexperience! Im glad you had help. Looks like you had a really great day of fun. That's how it should be. Good for you! Thanks for sharing the install. Congratulations Job well done.
Hi from Tasmania I've been working on my dads 1967 xr falcon 500 it's a 6 cylinder with a bench seat just converted it from column auto to 4 speed manual on the floor
Pedal blocks, move the seat back, and then a booster seat so you can see out the windshield. Modern cars with electric seats and adjustable columns are great, except many imports. I have the opposite problem. I'm 6'4'' and the seat goes all the way back, I can't reach the steering wheel comfortably anymore and in some vehicles my head is too high in the ceiling.
Very nice work ya'll, great tips as well. Thanks for the video.
That was quite a project. Looks great. Now I'm thinking about doing that to my 65 Mustang. You are amazing.
Just add a one in spacer to your gas and brake pedal its the same outcome but way less work and saved tons of money you're welcome
Great job ellie looks awesome !
Great job Ellie. I want to do a similar mod to mt 64 and will definitely touch base with Jerry.
Beautiful job 👏
I would of had the mounting support steering column plate welded to the steering column
Excellent video. Although I've swapped out my steering wheel to a smaller racer styled one it did the same job plus I don't have this oversized wheel in front of me. I also took out thr bench seat for racing buckets and at 6 ft. tall I can push the seat far enough to not touch the gas pedal.
I definitely like your videos but this is one undertaking thats way above my skill level....plus I don't have any extra steering columns lying around. Heck I'm having a hard enough time finding a 14x4 lug spare rim. 😮😂
Keep up the great work and don't knock a great pair of Chuck Taylors !! 👟
As a scientist that used to extensively use a glove box, I completely agree that they are tedious and uncomfortable. Not much fun.
Awesome as always. I do need to stop watching you, each episode adds on more work from Ideas you share. .🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Has it made parallel parking any tougher? The closer the steering wheel is to your chest the more leverage you have on it. OTOH it is much more comfortable and also safer to have it farther away from you.
Always enjoy your videos. Question: what was the tool you attached to the glass jar to spray the column. I’ve got a small project that I will need to get paint matched and don’t have a compressor
We should probably make a short video about that. We shot it, but we didn't put it in the episode. We got ours from our local paint shop but they are on Amazon as well:
a.co/d/74NYXCb
It worked really well for small projects and was SOOO much cheaper than getting a 2 oz rattle can mixed up.
It sprays in a tighter pattern than a rattle can so spray a little farther away and don't go too slow when you're spraying it.
Good luck with your project!
Those Preval sprayers work pretty well,first time I used one was painting on a cousins Chevy LUV pickup in the early eighties,my paint job was better than my amateur body work 😂
How did you fix the plastic turn signal parts that fell out when you removed the steering wheel?
Good question. That is all part of the turn signal switch and wiring. When you buy it, it all comes together in one piece. You can see us install it after we finish painting when we are re-wiring the column. I should put that link in the description as well. I’ll do that. Thank you!
Next project: A floor shifter.
Good call. That's our next episode. 😃
Who was the lady with the cool Pan Am bag?
Hi
What sort of wizardry were you using to rattle can the final color on the column? Did you make your own rattle can thingy?
Do a search for Preval sprayer. There are probably other brands but that is the most common one and will get you headed down the correct path.
That looked like a lot of work.
Why couldn't you just cut the original steering shaft and the steering column down the distant that you wanted?
I realize that the steering shaft has special ends on them, but just cut in the middle, remove the amount you want, and weld them up again.
Cool project but wouldn't it have been simpler to bend the shifter arm and use a flatter steering wheel?
Good question. I'm not sure about the shifter arm, but that classic steering wheel is one of my favorite things and I REALLY didn't want to change it out if it was at all possible.
If you want to see some great tig welding the watch youtuber Pacific Arc Tig Welding.
Where do you get one of those “mix your own rattle can” things?
We should probably make a short video about that. We shot it, but we didn't put it in the episode. We got ours from our local paint shop but they are on Amazon as well:
a.co/d/74NYXCb
It worked really well for small projects and was SOOO much cheaper than getting a 2 oz rattle can mixed up.
It sprays in a tighter pattern than a rattle can so spray a little farther away and don't go too slow when you're spraying it.
Good luck with your project!
what is the bearing information part number brand?
Ah! We forgot to add that. Just a second. We'll add it to the description.
Done! Here's the link to their site. You can get it straight from them but we bought it from them on ebay:
drbfab.com/collections/ford/products/all-metal-lower-steering-column-bearing-73-79-ford-trucks-and-76-79-broncos
Anyone else have to move their steering wheel all the way down in a new car because they're used to a massive classic steering wheel?
wear gloves.... it will save your hands from ......
Wow that seems to be an awful amount of work just to get one inch when you simply could have just put a one inch spacer on your gas and break pedal to bring you out an inch away from the whell geesh