The end of the column will be on the interior side of the firewall if the shaft collar is used, so take that into account when you fab up a lower bracket. The Borgeson bracket is a total joke.  Be sure to torque the steering wheel to the new shaft to properly establish the steering wheel - bell gap. Usually about 0.080" gap.
The idea is to capture the shaft inside the column as held by the steering wheel at the top ( or c-clip on some cars) and the shaft collar at the bottom so the shafy cannot move up or down.

TKO,
Does your 67 have a straight column, or a tilt away column? I've been considering switching my leaky factory power steering to the borgeson, but I'm not sure if the borgeson will work on a tilt away column.

Here's what I just did on the '66 - think it turned out OK.

I cut the tabs off of the Borgeson plate that you're supposed to use the hose clamp on and cut an angle on the fat end of a 2 1/2" ID to 2 1/4" ID exhaust adapter that happened to be laying in a corner of the shop and welded that to the Borgeson plate with a nut on the top if the 'adapter' collar for a set screw.



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Mustang Steve bearing in end of cut down column.



Test fit. Nice and solid. I'm going to replace the sheet metal retaining screws with blind rivetnuts. And repaint the column of course.

Nice work and I am sure that is much stronger than the original. I wish I had thought of that modification.

I like seeing those fabrication pics. Good job, McStang

I bet a decent design lower bracket would sell as well as the lower bearing kit.

Why not swap a 68 column into your 67. My Borgeson installation in my 68 was a snap with that column. Been working great for almost five years now.

Honestly, cutting down the column tube is not hard at all.  I measured it twice and cut it once with my chop saw and it came out perfect.  In truth, nothing's really that hard, just some of its time consuming.  I spent about 1-1/2 hours fabricating a new fuel line from the pump to the carb, which now runs behind the AC compressor.  That wasn't planned.  It took me three trips to the parts store to get the right belt for the pump, but finally got that sorted.  Turns out I have a 1-1/8" pitman arm instead of the 1" one I thought I had.  I already had the box mounted so I just sourced a 1" arm, but time taken in tracking that down, shipping, etc.  Working on fabricating a floor plate to replace the Borgeson one that's a joke.  I should have the car back on the road this weekend.  Not bad really for a total change out of a major system with fab work.  Its a pretty good system it seems, but they skimp on the detail stuff, and their instructions flat out suck.  Really?  $900 and not a single picture?  I found a decent write up on CJ Pony Parts site that was for a '65-'66, but still 95% applicable that helped a lot.  Really looking forward to it being done and being able to drive the car a lot easier. 

It took a while to get it right.  I think I had the column in and out of the car 6 times to get the angle right, but here's the finished product.  I reproduced the base plate in 14 gauge steel, then took a 2-1/4" to 2-1/2" exhaust adapter (thanks for that idea BB), and modified it.  I found the area between the two diamters in the coupling was actually smaller than the 2-1/4" part and the column would not slide though it.  A concave fillet had resulted from the forming process, so I cut the section of the fillet out, then shortened and modified the top section to have two wings before welding it back to the lower section.  When I started cutting the angle into it I had to extend the bottom side because the fitting was too short, so I rolled some more 14 gauge steel around a mandrel and welded it to the coupling.  There's about 2" difference in length top to bottom.  Then I just bent up a simple clamp from some 14 gauge steel.  The idea was that this would look like something that plausibly would have been used in the '60s.  Quite happy with it, and its supposed to rain today so looks like I may actually get a chance to install it.  I'll post back with end results.

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Ron68 wrote:

Why not swap a 68 column into your 67. My Borgeson installation in my 68 was a snap with that column. Been working great for almost five years now.

Ron,
Do you have to cut the column tube down on the 67/68 Borgeson install, like you do on the earlier cars? I'm wanting to switch to Borgeson, but I have a 67 tilt away column with the rag joint and I really don't want to modify my column tube.

John

I have a 68 column in the 66.  No column cutting but I did have to lengthen the locating slot at the dash clamp.  I had a 68 box with rag joint in it before the Borgeson and I was able to collaps the inner shaft just enough to connect to the Borg. box. 

BB
 

Last edited by Bullet Bob (6/19/2017 5:08 PM)