This is a little hard to explain verbally, and I don't have my camera here so can't take a picture. Here goes....I'm using an Ididit Shorty column on my Deuce 5 window project. I have the column mounted in the car and am in the process of measuring for the joints and linkage needed to hook the column to the steering, which is a rack & pinion unit in a Kugel indy front end. It's a fairly straight shot and I should be able to get by with one u-joint and one support bearing between the firewall and the rack. I will be using 3/4 inch X 36 splined steering shafting. My delimma is how best to finish off the hole in the firewall where the 3/4 inch shaft will come through. There is a flange bearing on the inside of the firewall, but how is the best way to finish off the other side so that there's not just a 3/4 inch shaft poking through a raw hole? Everything I've seen in pictures and at shows involves longer columns that have the end of the column sticking through the firewall and thus present a more finished look. Has anybody else confronted this problem when using a Shorty column? Thanks

No real help from me ...





I always use a GM van tilt column ... and they are longer than the Ididit short one. I do make a cover ... to cover over the hole ... because the hole is larger than the column diameter ... to allow for the shifter arm ...

Street Rod Builder Magazine did an article on this a few months ago.