1971 Chevy Pickup - Project Get Shorty - Tech

With that all said and done, we bolted up the new Mooneyes steering wheel and the horn retaining sleeve. And yes, I do realize the green on orange combo does give off a Ninja Turtle feel, but when everything is said and done in the build, it will all gel. By the way, dig the juxtaposition between the two setups.

With everything installed, the last step was to hook it all together with the Borgeson setup. The Borgeson joints are splined and slide over the splined ends of the box and column....

...The first joint to go on was the Borgeson polished stainless steel vibration reducer joint on the box. This joint is manufactured with polyurethane inside the joint housing, which ensures no metal to metal contact. Because of that, the joint acts like a rag joint and alleviates any road vibration from the wheel.

The other joint slides onto the column shaft. Once each joint was in position, we tightened down the set screw to keep the joint in position.

This Borgeson double-D shaft connects the two joints. By measuring the distance between the two mounted joints, we determined the length of the shaft and then cut. From there, the shaft is placed in the open ends of each joint and secured in place with the set screws.