Ive been wanting to do this for a while. So better late then never.
So far i've had the shop now for 4 years. Had the oportunity to work on a lot of cool projects. And look forward to many more in the years to come.
Check out my website for past info: www.saltflatsspeedshop.com
So recent
ly ive been working on a few projects. I have been fixing a few things on a 1928 roadster that was at my open house this year. The owner and I wanted to make it a little nicer driver so we've been upgrading a few things.
First I upgraded the schroeder steering box with a reducer to get the steering ratio from 8 t0 1, to 16 to 1. Before it took both hands to steer, and was really tiring. The owner wanted to be able to have his wife drive the car. So now its really easy to steer.
The next thing I upgraded was the pitman arm. The old pitman arm had its splines welded onto the steering box so I had schroeder make me up a new steering shaft with their splines, and had them thread the end. Then had them send me one of their ford style pitman arms. I softened all the edges and shaped it to look like the original ford pitman arm. Then I made a dummy piece of threads that screwed into the threaded end of the steering box. That way I could put on the original ford lock washer and castle nut.
Overall it looks almost exactly like it was before, just has an allen head bolt. But the main improvement was to have a one piece shaft insted of having a welded on end that could fail.
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