WANTED Bolt to connect steering column to power steering

[MarPar]

I may have one fer ya, Mike. Ill check my stash tonight. If I do, you can have it free of charge.

 

[commando1]

I tried drilling straight through the bolt yesterday, that was a completely useless attempt, for that small of a hole.

It's NOT going to be done without a drill press, a table vise, AND a Carbide drill. HSS, Cobalt, Titanium coated, etc will not drill a SHCS.

But, the hole isn't absolutely necessary. Loctite, lock washer, Ny-Loc®™ nut... Jeezes H. Murphy!! How much more redundancy do you need?? Aviation safety wire?

 

[Ross Wooldridge]

Lol...

Alan... where did you come up with that part number? I couldn't find it in my 66 parts book.

 

[MrMoparCHP]

Lol...

Alan... where did you come up with that part number? I couldn't find it in my 66 parts book.

In the police/taxi section of my 69 parts book.
19-15-23

Looks like it is in the power steering section also and not the manual steering section.


Alan

 

[Ross Wooldridge]

Cool! Thanks.

 

[Zymurgy]

It's NOT going to be done without a drill press, a table vise, AND a Carbide drill. HSS, Cobalt, Titanium coated, etc will not drill a SHCS.

But, the hole isn't absolutely necessary. Loctite, lock washer, Ny-Loc®™ nut... Jeezes H. Murphy!! How much more redundancy do you need?? Aviation safety wire?

I have all of the above. I bought a brass nut and am going to give it a shot tomorrow.

 

[polarus]

I have one, it's yours no charge. PM me with your address if your interested.

 

[Zymurgy]

I have one, it's yours no charge. PM me with your address if your interested.

Thanks you're the man. I won't even try to drill out the new bolt.

 

[Big_John]

AND a Carbide drill. HSS, Cobalt, Titanium coated, etc will not drill a SHCS.

Now I have to dust off my toolmaker hat and put it on...

The short answer is yes, you can drill a SHCS with a HSS drill. I have done it myself numerous times.

The SHCS hardness is 38-45 HRC (Rockwell C hardness scale). HSS drills will still cut at about 50 HRC and the SHCS tend toward the softer side of the scale.

Ideally, you can grind the drill point geometry to do it right, but I never bothered. You will have to use a good drill press or ideally, a Bridgeport milling machine.

One of the things I used to do was to drill a hole in the head and press in a long dowel pin. This made a neat little thumb screw when you didn't have anything else on hand.

Toolmaker hat off....

 

[commando1]

Toolmaker hat off....

No. Keep it on or at least close by.
I love when professional experience is the teacher.
Thank you.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

All I have is truck driver hat. Loctite the crap out of it, check it for a while if it comes loose loctite and stake the threads, check again. If loose again tack weld bolt in tight position, done. You can always get it off with a cutting torch.
Now you know how to be a owner/operator.

 

[MarPar]

I checked tonight, and struck out...

@polarus

 

[rexus31]

Just went out scrounging and checking, the one spare donut I have none of the four screws are drilled, they're only equipped with lock washers. Don't remember the car it came from but almost guaranteed to be a 65 Polara. The two cars currently in the shop both have all 4 screws drilled for cotter pins. So once again, may be a best practice, may be a lesson learned, don't know but apparently not all were originally drilled.

I'll second this. No holes drill through the original bolts on my '65. Maybe this was a change for '66?

 

[Polara_500]

The ones in the shop are 65's as well and drilled, so there's some mix n match somewhere.

 

[Zymurgy]

Thank you Tony @polarus, not only did he send me the bolt I needed free of charge, but sent it priority mail, and I received it today. This is why I love this group of C-body guys. Cheers!

 

[Zymurgy]

I am back in business, thanks again Tony. It is amazing how easy it goes together when you have the bolt in the correct direction.

 

[Ross Wooldridge]

Now that looks spot on!