FYI on K-frames

Yep, love that 1960s 1970s build quality. My 74 spool mount K was pretty bad too. After giving it a good douching with oven cleaner and a scrub brush to remove 20 lbs of crust, and caked on oil, I ended up cutting out the center splice on the underside, and welding in a piece of 1/8" steel plate to stiffen it up. I ground mine down at all the crappy welds, then bolted it into the car as a jig and thrn seam welded it, and added needed gussets around the steering box area. Lots of weld dressing and prep for paint is still needed, but Rome wasnt built in a day, and neither is this cuda.

You must also remember that assembly line jobs back then probably sucked, the japanese had not started to kick our asses in the auto industry yet, and the words "its good enough" were probably commonplace in detroit. Now its war and survival of the fittest between detroit, and japan. We are now used to todays high quality cars be it japanese or american made today simply because as a consumer we know it can be made better, and we refuse to buy the substandard **** we used to buy from detroit because they used to be the only game in town.