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Re: Steering Column Lengths

Ok, so the usual dose of patience and the favourite medium size hammer required! Does the top of the inner column have at bearing or bush? and still the burning question are columns interchangeable?

Re: Steering Column Lengths

Nick - presumably your proposed change is to give you a different column length to suit your special. If however your aim is towards that ultimate - to add on lightness with a different column/box, you will be wasting your time. I've weighed both aluminium and steel boxes and when full of their respective mechanicals they are exactly the same. Strange, but true. Good Luck with the project, Cheers, Bill in Oz

Location: Euroa,Victoria

Re: Steering Column Lengths

My objective is twofold. a) to take it to pieces and rebuild it simply for the experience and learning value and b)to make it available to use in the special if someone knows if the columns are interchangeable. I realise of course that the original RN's controls tubes will have to be dispensed with.
If weight saving was important I think a personal diet would be more effective!