67 barracuda notchback restoration
So i got this manual shift 3 on the tree column and a manual steering box. I am intending to go power steering 4 on the floor. I lucked out as there is a 67 barracuda coupe in my local boneyard at the time thats pretty picked over but the steering column is there. Automatic with column shift and power steering. I figure i can make these 2 into one floor shift column with the correct shaft for power steering. During its teardown i figured out why they tried the home brewed 3 speed on the floor. A piece was broken up in the column on the shifter tube and it wouldent shift anymore the collar with the shifter handle would just rotate around the shaft.
No matter i'm going 4 on the floor now. The things i kept were basically everything except the steering shaft. I used the one from the automatic car. I had to fabricate and butt weld in a plate that covers the end of the tube where the 3 speed shifter forks come out. I also cut the forks off the shifter tubes and fit them back in the column as part of the initial mock up before it came back apart for paint and final assembly. The butt welded plate i ground smooth and applied a skim coat of JB weld and bodyworked prior to primering and painting.
At the top of the steering outer tube is the manual shifter collar and upper collar that holds the turn signal and horn switch roller mechanisms. I went with these as the upper one was already smooth for a floor shift. The lower one had only a nub for the column shift handle. I cut the nub off and filed it concave. Then i cleaned out all the grease from it and sandblasted it clean and packet it with JB weld to fill it up. When it was dry i sanded it, !and bodyworked it to prep and paint it.
Everything was either sandblasted prior to painting, or cleaned and lubricated like the bearing races. I bought a lower coupler rebuild kit and redid the power steering splined coupler. I picked up a new turn signal switch assembly and a grant GT wheel adaptor kit to use a grant 3 spoke wheel a good friend of mine gave me about 7 years ago. He just recently passed away in december 2015. The column now is done and packed away in wrapped storage until needed. Shown in the pix are the bodyworked and jb weld filled collar and tube end.
So i got this manual shift 3 on the tree column and a manual steering box. I am intending to go power steering 4 on the floor. I lucked out as there is a 67 barracuda coupe in my local boneyard at the time thats pretty picked over but the steering column is there. Automatic with column shift and power steering. I figure i can make these 2 into one floor shift column with the correct shaft for power steering. During its teardown i figured out why they tried the home brewed 3 speed on the floor. A piece was broken up in the column on the shifter tube and it wouldent shift anymore the collar with the shifter handle would just rotate around the shaft.
No matter i'm going 4 on the floor now. The things i kept were basically everything except the steering shaft. I used the one from the automatic car. I had to fabricate and butt weld in a plate that covers the end of the tube where the 3 speed shifter forks come out. I also cut the forks off the shifter tubes and fit them back in the column as part of the initial mock up before it came back apart for paint and final assembly. The butt welded plate i ground smooth and applied a skim coat of JB weld and bodyworked prior to primering and painting.
At the top of the steering outer tube is the manual shifter collar and upper collar that holds the turn signal and horn switch roller mechanisms. I went with these as the upper one was already smooth for a floor shift. The lower one had only a nub for the column shift handle. I cut the nub off and filed it concave. Then i cleaned out all the grease from it and sandblasted it clean and packet it with JB weld to fill it up. When it was dry i sanded it, !and bodyworked it to prep and paint it.
Everything was either sandblasted prior to painting, or cleaned and lubricated like the bearing races. I bought a lower coupler rebuild kit and redid the power steering splined coupler. I picked up a new turn signal switch assembly and a grant GT wheel adaptor kit to use a grant 3 spoke wheel a good friend of mine gave me about 7 years ago. He just recently passed away in december 2015. The column now is done and packed away in wrapped storage until needed. Shown in the pix are the bodyworked and jb weld filled collar and tube end.
