Custom steering column
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Hi, Im looking for information on custom steering columns.
Ill be mounting my main shroud section to my rollcage but im not really sure on where to go from there.
Im looking at using a couple of UJ's to get the posission a little nicer too.
Im a little unsure how to stop the steerings fore and aft movement at the moment. Am i best off attaching the bottom UJ directly to the rack. one less movable link forward of the UJ to stop it articulating back on itself? (if that makes sence)

If anyone has some pictures, diagrams ect or anything i could use to get my head round it, that would be great.

Regards,
Dave

David.

have a look back through the for sale section at a shell for sale I seem to remember the chap had a nice home bru column. can't remember the chaps user name I am afraid, I believe he was based arround the Scottish borders or somewhere north. someone els may remember his user name?

I tried looking for the said mini in the for sale section but couldnt see it. Thanks though.

If anyone has any ideas that will be great.

David.

I use a montego/maestro column in the hillclimber. It has 2 ujs and a short 6" section between them.

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I thought you might be the person in the know here and it sounds ideal.
And just had a quick nose through your pics on your site. Did you mount the bottom UJ straight to the splined section of the rack out-put?
Also did you just modify the mini's column and weld it to the montego column after the after the 2nd UJ?
Final question, how did you stop the fore and aft movment?

Thanks

David.

The wohle thing has the correct splines at both ends for the mini rack and steering wheel.

Interesting question about fore and aft movement. I never thought about it, so it must be built into the column.

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

Ok thanks thats great. I would assume a UJ'ed column would have something to stop it moving. I was thinking i would have to make one from scratch and then need to stop the excess movement.
Top steering splines doesnt bother me too much, it will be getting a weld-on QR boss.

Thanks for your help

David.

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=366477

think he may have more images in a build thread somewhere...

Thank you maccamcvey, i hadnt looked tht far back.
not quite what im after because im really wanting the 2 Uj set-up but does look good and few more ideas elsewhere for the shell's build up

David.

Just bringing this back up.

So I sorted out buying a column, but Im not clearer as to how to stop the column moving forwards and backwards up on itself (or telescoping) when I pull on the column its allowed to freely move in and out of the outter column, which of course I dont want whilst driving.



Obviously its not fixed in place yet.
Might just me being a bit of a tit :/ but once mounted will the inner coumn be secured in place? I though due to the fact the angle of the outter column is fixed, the inner column wont be allowed to telescope as in order to do so the angles would need to change.

I obviously dont want to start welding it in place for it to not work how I want.

David.

Anyone have any idea about this?

Cheers,

David.

Normally one end of the jointed section slides in and out to account for movement when rotating.

Edited by Tupers on 21st Apr, 2014.

When I made my column I have a thrust collar at the bottom of the straight section to cover what I think you are referring to.