{"id":283,"date":"2025-04-14T20:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2025-04-15T00:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T08:32:32","slug":"the-great-steering-debacle-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"The Great Steering Debacle.  Part One."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wasn\u2019t supposed to touch anything steering related.  Things changed quickly.  The steering column was collapsed (long story) and both the top and bottom bearings were shot.  I\u2019d need more tools and space to rebuild it correctly.   So instead I bought a 1968 Corvette Ididit steering column ($800).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After I received the column I saw a glaring issue.  The rag joint that I just rebuilt did not match the new column.  It turns out that the \u201968 Corvette had the earlier generation (\u201963-\u201968) steering box.  So now I had to buy a new rag joint AND a new steering box.   Thankfully I found a guy on the Corvette forum selling a rebuilt steering box for only $120, saving myself $400.  The new rag joint was another $165.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_153503-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_153503-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_153503-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_153503-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_153503-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_153503-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_160207-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_160207-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_160207-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_160207-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_160207-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pawney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20241211_160207-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn\u2019t supposed to touch anything steering related. Things changed quickly. The steering column was collapsed (long story) and both the top and bottom bearings were shot. I\u2019d need more tools and space to rebuild it correctly. So instead I bought a 1968 Corvette Ididit steering column ($800). After I received the column I saw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vette-rebuild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}