[DeTomaso] Steering Column Slip Joint clips

Wed Jun 9 11:29:32 EDT 2021

Steve, do you have a part # or description that I could search with to find a pair?  Or, could you send me a pair as well.  My column is out for the restoration making the swap very easy.

Thanks

Mike Thomas

From: Steve Liebenow <steven.liebenow at att.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 7:21 PM
To: Mike & Elizabeth <mbefthomas2 at gmail.com>; Mike Drew <mikeldrew at aol.com>
Cc: Detomaso List <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Steering Column Slip Joint clips

DOH!!!!!

CRS setting in fast, so don't recall if I mailed you a pair already, or if "I was gonna see you soon....." sorta deal.....

I will work on getting you another pair!!!

Here's a picture.......shouldn't help a bit right!!!?

These are found in 19700+++ Ford, Merc's, and Lincolns where ever steering columns are found.....!  Probably trucks also with collapsible columns.    Pre 1970 the top and bottom shaft pieces were "bonded" with injected nylon plastic of some sort which damped the noise and still allowed things to collapse as 

needed.

Cheers!
Steve

On Tuesday, June 8, 2021, 3:25:35 PM PDT, Mike Drew <mikeldrew at aol.com <mailto:mikeldrew at aol.com> > wrote: 

Mike,

I wrote a tech article in the August 2020 PCNC newsletter detailing a brilliant fix that Stephane Bergeron in Paris came up with. It works amazingly well and preserves the collapsing feature. I implemented it in my car. 

Available here:

http://www.panteraclubnorcal.org/h---previous-pcnc-publications

Although I chose to tap the undersized hole I had drilled, arguably that was extra work and it probably would have worked just as well to drill an oversized hole and just let the threads in the welded nut handle the task.

Subsequent to that, Steve Liebenow found appropriate metal clips from a Mercury (I think) which might also do the job. He was supposed to send some to me many. Moths ago for evaluation—Steve?

Mike

Sent from my iPad

On Jun 8, 2021, at 22:25, Mike & Elizabeth <mbefthomas2 at gmail.com <mailto:mbefthomas2 at gmail.com> > wrote:

   I've got the classic minor slop in my slip joint steering column.  I
  remember years ago comments that the two clips on the inner shaft meant
  to keep the two shafts tight are no longer available.  Has this changed
  and/or what are some solutions you've used to eliminate this movement?
  Right now it translates to about 1-2" of free-play at the rim of the
  steering wheel, just enough to be annoying.  I've measured this by
  clamping the lower, outer column in a vice, attaching the wheel and
  checking for movement.  I need to check the universal joint for
  movement as well but I can feel movement where the inner shaft inserts
  to the lower shaft.

  Welding the shaft is not an option for me as the slip joint is a safety
  feature.

  Thanks

  Mike Thomas
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   Steve, do you have a part # or description that I could search with to
   find a pair?  Or, could you send me a pair as well.  My column is out
   for the restoration making the swap very easy.

   Thanks

   Mike Thomas

   From: Steve Liebenow <steven.liebenow at att.net>
   Sent: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 7:21 PM
   To: Mike & Elizabeth <mbefthomas2 at gmail.com>; Mike Drew
   <mikeldrew at aol.com>
   Cc: Detomaso List <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Steering Column Slip Joint clips

   DOH!!!!!

   CRS setting in fast, so don't recall if I mailed you a pair already, or
   if "I was gonna see you soon....." sorta deal.....

   I will work on getting you another pair!!!

   Here's a picture.......shouldn't help a bit right!!!?

   These are found in 19700+++ Ford, Merc's, and Lincolns where ever
   steering columns are found.....!  Probably trucks also with collapsible
   columns.    Pre 1970 the top and bottom shaft pieces were "bonded" with
   injected nylon plastic of some sort which damped the noise and still
   allowed things to collapse as

   needed.

   Cheers!
   Steve

   On Tuesday, June 8, 2021, 3:25:35 PM PDT, Mike Drew
   <[1]mikeldrew at aol.com> wrote:

   Mike,

   I wrote a tech article in the August 2020 PCNC newsletter detailing a
   brilliant fix that Stephane Bergeron in Paris came up with. It works
   amazingly well and preserves the collapsing feature. I implemented it
   in my car.

   Available here:

   [2]http://www.panteraclubnorcal.org/h---previous-pcnc-publications

   Although I chose to tap the undersized hole I had drilled, arguably
   that was extra work and it probably would have worked just as well to
   drill an oversized hole and just let the threads in the welded nut
   handle the task.

   Subsequent to that, Steve Liebenow found appropriate metal clips from a
   Mercury (I think) which might also do the job. He was supposed to send
   some to me many. Moths ago for evaluation--Steve?

   Mike

   Sent from my iPad

     On Jun 8, 2021, at 22:25, Mike & Elizabeth
     <[3]mbefthomas2 at gmail.com> wrote:

     I've got the classic minor slop in my slip joint steering column.  I
     remember years ago comments that the two clips on the inner shaft
   meant
     to keep the two shafts tight are no longer available.  Has this
   changed
     and/or what are some solutions you've used to eliminate this
   movement?
     Right now it translates to about 1-2" of free-play at the rim of the
     steering wheel, just enough to be annoying.  I've measured this by
     clamping the lower, outer column in a vice, attaching the wheel and
     checking for movement.  I need to check the universal joint for
     movement as well but I can feel movement where the inner shaft
   inserts
     to the lower shaft.
     Welding the shaft is not an option for me as the slip joint is a
   safety
     feature.
     Thanks
     Mike Thomas
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