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April 4, 2004: Enough with seats for a while, it's time to play with steering!
I've extended the steering shaft. It'll get reinstalled tonight, then I can make the rack move with the steering wheel. Once I adapt the wheel to the column, that is. The tie rods will wait until my new rod ends are delivered.

I've also been working on my Cadillac. It got a new Rochester carb off my parts car to replace the Carter it had, but it turns out the carb needs a rebuild. Sigh. At least I found out why the seat wouldn't move - there were some flares jammed underneath. The manufacture date on the flares is 1978. I'm not sure they were built with a 25 year service life!

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