this is what real hot rodding is all about, build and mod. with what you have, with minimum spending ... nice progress Tony, one more step forward.

Another great class from Fitzee’s University. Always amazed at your ability to make things seem simple enough for me to tackle! Thanks.

That was very interesting to watch. Your tips for the bearings were spot on. That is a fine column and the dash came out great. Everything is supported nicely and not going anywhere. Great Job!

I said it once before. You are inspiring. I don't know what keeps you motivated but you are keeping me motivated and all I'm doing right now is drywall work for myself. However I do body work for a living and I respect the thought that you put into everything you do, one section at a time with no fancy tools.👊

You have inspired me to get into doing things that I never thought I could. I wish you could see some of the things I have done using skills that you showed me. My brother as well. We just spent all day in the Garauge yesterday working on the vehicles and having a blast. I am 51 years old and I have spent my whole life as a mechanic working on drivability and electrical/software problems. I lost the enjoyment of working on that stuff. But doing custom fabrication has given me back the childhood enjoyment of working in the Garauge again. I can’t thank you enough. I love and watch all of your videos, I do like and share them. Great job on Crusty

I’ll tell you what I think you are one of the best metal fabricators I have ever seen

I don’t use water to cool down welds but I have used a cold wet rag on the backside of something while welding in certain situations where u really don’t wanna put much heat into something or worried about burning through thin metal. Whatever it takes sometimes! Great vid bud👍

Great job! Really enjoyed this show. The fabrication was excellent. I love how you do everything with simple tools.

As a racer myself, I can only say that your work is beautiful. And Peanut is back. Keep up the good work!

You know, I don’t plan to build a column, but there is a lot of thought process and fab ideas we could apply to other projects. Thanks Fitzee

That eccentric is to lock on shaft you set it with a punch!

Awesome. Love the column. I love how u figure out how to use various pieces of simple metal to make swell engineered product. How u do your vids is very nicely put together as well. Thanks Fitzee

Thank you, Tony. The Adventures of Crusty are becoming reality. And hey, your cut and butt video is great.

Nice build... Not your first rodeo. I see your Rodent🐀 Recovery Technician 😸 is out making the rounds. Life is good when you have a well-trained and motivated staff. Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic job tony. Your tips are always good.. and the humor with the precise one of a kind pipe clamp had me rolling . Thanks for sharing all your knowledge tony .. until next time ill stick around

I was late following the crusty videos and actually went back to the start after new year. It's incredible to see how far crusty has come since the start and the huge amount of advice you have given throughout that's helped me with my project. I'm looking forward to seeing this tomorrow 😃

These videos are great. I'm always learning something. 👍 🇨🇦

A real adventure in fabrication, good job. Thanks Fitzee.

One thing I saw thats bitten me before was seeing you use the unibit to open up the hole for the steering shaft after you precisely located the center of the shaft. I've found out the hard way they dont stay centered on the hole once you start stepping out the size. Lesson learned the hard way for me

Those bearings are eccentric locking collars, they are designed to slide together and then turn the eccentric collar counter to the rotation of the shaft to lock the bearing race to the shaft, tighten the set screw and it will stay in place. Since you will be turning the shaft both directions it wouldn't matter which way you locked it.

Lookin good! You might look at using a CV joint boot to cover the exposed shaft. I think that would look pretty good. Also, I've used bearing for wheel barrel wheels. They have a flange on one side that holds them to your outer pipe. And best of all they cost a dollar or two.

Best Design! Solid thought process. I have no fear working with simple tools and making mistakes. you ought to see the VW bus we got going on with a camry engine.

Awesome job . I learned a lot. Love the channel and need to do an hour video every day.

Next Week, Fitzee fabricates a race car with Heinz Beans cans!!! 😂 Love how you just use what you've got layin around. Great Vlog keep up the good work always fascinating.

Tony, The older horn slip ring, from the old Chevy's you questioned were hot. The slip ring is grounded through the stearing wheel since the relay coil is floating hot. When you hit the horn ring, the relay is energized and applies 12 volts through the secondary side to the horns. Just like the dome lights accept there no relay for them. You mentioned maybe putting a boot over the area below the steering wheel. Could you use a boot from a CV joint? What you just did was absolutely incredible. A lot of thought and time was put into that dash area. Nice job.

It was a enjoyable one fitzee alot of humorous moment had me L.M.A.O...and a great job as always too.... 🙂👍🙏

Holy crap Tony, you have taken "gap be gone" to a hole other level with that hose clamp ! Keep em coming, cheers, Doug

Great job my friend !! Sometimes hard to find the extra space shuttle tooling !! 😄😄

Tips were Good. That's why I Stick Around. 😉😉😉 Another Big Win. 👍👍👍

Love watching your videos.

I like your philosophy regarding hot rodding and the use of recycled parts. We think alike!

Great job Tony! I always learn something when I watch your videos.

Love all your videos , you have great skills ! 🙂

What a learning experience thanks.

Hey Tony. You really had to roll up your sleeves for that build. Hope you can find the other side of that harness plug. Maybe use a CV joint boot on the steering shaft between the wheel and the plastic housing to make it look a little more better. Thanks for posting.

I love how you do stuff. My buddies are always saying to me "why don't you just get a new one!" It's fun to use what I got laying around and fix stuff

Thoroughly enjoyed the whole video!!👌👌👌

Good job of explaining mounting of dash, steering column and brake assembly. You have explained things that will help me when I build my old $50.00 rusty1941 plymouth project car using donated S10 components.Great educational video.

Awesome job Tony and thanks for the great tips, my next adventure on my 47 is the column so this one is right on time for helping me with that,

I'm loving this build

Wow man sir Tony that was quite the job you did looks good and very solid well done great video

Bravo, excellent job

Truly Amazing as Always Such Great Tips You Have a Great Ability not only for Metal Working but Teaching also Thanks so Much for Sharing

I love the highly precise and close tolerance machine tool.....

A couple squirts of Armor-All and that dash will look better than new.

That's gonna be one Sweet Machine!

love ur work

That was an interesting exercise, fitting all the pieces together to make everything look like a regular Corolla.

Fitz, I used PVC pipe to hide the steering bar on my project, turned out awesome. Will take some finagling with different diameter PVC pipe, but it can be done NFLD style (hard work and ingenuity). Great show by the way, luv your content.

Peanut checking out the snow and wondering when it will all melt and the weather will warm up again. Then deciding it's way too cold out here, let me back inside quick.

I would add a CV joint boot to clean up the looks of the column that sticks out. Great work, as always.

Tony, I have something for you, to trim up the exposed shaft behind the wheel. I'm not sure if it'll be within your budget range, as it's a high class solution, but an inner tie rod boot from a steering rack would be perfect to cover up that shaft and maintain its dignity out in public.

Those bearing caps are brilliant.

Something to watch tomorrow morning. Looking forward to seeing another step towards the completion of this project.

Peanut out of the warm house, the snow is receding. 👍

Such an amazing vid great work as always man

Killer build.

Very nice job Tony

Crusty is coming along bit by bit! My lady friend says your chief inspector at the end is very lovely!.......(I agree as well BTW!)

Awesome video. I see why you put the column in before the floor. I wish I could send you photos of my project. I will continue to learn from you . Yes the tips weee good. Thank you

Tony, I am subscribed and I clicked the bell so I am notified when you post a new video. This one had been posted for over 4 hours and no notification. I found it listed on the main page when I refreshed it to see some new suggestions, most of which KZfaq recommends are trash. You cannot trust KZfaq.

The collar on your bearing is an eccentric locking ring to lock it to the shaft, used mostly on conveyer belts.tap it around to lock in place

The tips were good!

Love it ! Old school hot roding, if you don't have it, make it !

Hi Tony. You would think that a steering column, being a pretty uncomplicated mechanical device, would not require such a high level of fabrication. That old Chev column was just the ticket though. In the end, it looks great. I also like seeing the great explorer coming home, out of the woods, at the end! Thanks for the video!

Best video yet my man 👍

an access to¯a lathe would have made the task so much easier, simply 2 steel ( or plastic )plugs that have contained the bearings you've choosen. very good fabrication work and very good video

nice work !

Nice job 👏 👍

Another friday night with great content!

SUPER GOOD.

Learned some fab on this one.

Good job

One of your best, most interesting U"tubes". Well done even tho it gave you "Fitz".

Every show I think, it can't get any better. I am always wrong, it gets better every episode. I knew there was a reason I never throw usable scrap away. By the way, lightening holes on the column braces - Full Race!

that was great

Forget about Dat Just set that there Awesome Fitzy AS usual Keeping it simple Nuttin Fancy !! Cue Applause Smiley!!! My Motto in the Garage is very similar "Keep it simple Stupid!" Just one step at a time and don;t get ahead of yourself, Just the way you do 👍👍👍

I’m glad you enjoyed that because I would have found it very frustrating I think. I’ll admit I might have done that credit card swipe thing you mentioned.

Thank you!

Cool little hotrod

I believe those bearing collars are eccentric. By turning them they cam lock the bearing to the shaft. Edit, I should have watched a little longer. You figgered it out.

Mercy......complicated steering column geometry !

I thought the center holes were offset in those brackets. Thanks for clearing it up Fitzee. 👀

If you put a plastic bag nice and tight around the roll bar and then fill the dash pad with expanding insulation foam it will fill in the gap, and make your job easier when you cover the panel with new vinyl.

Looks factory ❤

Genius.

That was cool to see how all that came together. There’s a guy on KZfaq that does a lot of cracked dash repair his channel is “Sprayway customs”

We'd be as good as you at metal fab, IF we had all those high dollar precision tools you use.

You da Man !!!

Tony I always enjoy seeing the way you figure through things. I do have something I would like to use on my build. Take a look at the Prius power steering set up. It is just a small motor that connects under the dash and is right on the column. Very nifty way to give your car electric power steering for cheap and so simple. Have you seen them used before?

You certainly are DASHING today sir ! 🤣🤣😅

If you were to put a round plate the size of the opening of the plastic shroud with a sleeve welded to it that you can screw to the steering shaft with two holes in the plate that slide on the self cancellation pins for the turn signals will mean you won't have to remember to cancel them manually .

Hello fitzee how are you doing?!Nice to see you again!Have a good week end mate!

No tilt? Lol. Good tips.

HA HA i was thinking the same thing about the wiper switch.

Thanks!

Those bearings are tapper lock bearings, they have a drilled hole on the black ring that you can use a punch to tap it around to lock it in place and then use the set screw to keep from coming a lose

Tony , I think that lower Bearing needs to stick down further past the firewall to be changed !

Hey hello the live chat was fun.But the upgrade to CAD -cardbord-aided design- It's not a 3d printer. It's a profile gauge

Just imagine if a guy had 2 hose clamps!