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April 8, 2004: Well, the steering shaft is in place.
It's the perfect length. By that, I mean that if it was 1mm longer it wouldn't have worked! Whew. I might still move it slightly to move the steering wheel closer to the driver. There's adjustment in the column to lengthen it if I need to. At full lock, there's a bit of flex in the column that is not good. I picked up a teflon pillow block yesterday to help out here. I also got my big red starter button and I've been spending more time looking at the dash and pondering. Switches may end up on the transmission tunnel. Hey, if it works for a WRC car...

The driver's seat is bolted in place now so I am making some progress. The Cadillac now has a newly rebuilt carb, too. There are a lot of parts in a four-barrel with an automatic choke!

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