Man what a half-assed way to have something as life-and-death as the steering! Looks like your fix will be way better.

Just because a Hot Rod looks good doesn’t mean it’s safe You got lucky 👍

I had a good ol boy years ago bring a square body Chevy for state inspection he just rebuilt the steering gearbox and I made it 2 blocks away then pop no steering he pulled the trailer around and loaded her up and took her back home try # 2 LOL! thanks for the memories!

.........and the pucker factor was real tight. !!!!! Lol.

Actually that's what's generally referred to as a 1923 body style. The 26 and 27 T bodies had a longer cowl. Looking at the frame I'd say that's a Total Performance car.

My Uncle who was a Class A mechanic and restorer of Classic Autos used to call that type of repair a "Binder Twine and Bubble Gum " repair. I always thought that was cool .. He was a "Good'ol Boy" to say the least ... :)

That's not a thread it's called a spline LOL. Whoever built that T Bucket should have also fabricated a column drop bracket off of the bottom of the dash.

Total Stands for Total Performance. they were a big kit car dealer/supplier from Connecticut. all their assets were bought out by Speedway. everything else By King T from Daytona. That through the floor steering column design was always garbage. the issue is it's only held in place by the set screw. and the set screw lines up with the floor making it real hard to install and tighten. this is a know issue with this kits. second is it needs the drop column mount from the dash to hold the column from shaking around like that.

Relying on set screws to maintain your steering integrity seems like a recipe for disaster.

Well done, good quality repair too. Thanks for posting.

I’d recognize that car in the garage anywhere. I see it or the wagon when I’m in town. Funny now I can see your work without stopping to bother you.

Man I bet that was a scary feeling ! Glad everything turned out o.k ! Nice T bucket ! 👍✌

Those wheels are the coolest they've been around for quite some time.Who makes those wheels?

It's a Total Performance anniversary edition body Two inches longer and Two inches lower on the sides

My t-bucket is very similar. It's like driving a 4 wheel motorcycle. However the fun gauge is always on full. Mike

that is really really good looking

Scary to say the least.....Not goin to LIE.

I used the same swivel set up on my 26 Henry steel T coupe Rat rod. I tried a couple different steering couplings but ended up using one from Speedway. They claim to manufacture their own here in the USA. The quality I found was A-1. It fit very snuggly and after over a year of driving the set screws needed no tightening. The China made coupler I tried first was so sloppy on both ends it would never tighten up. There can be a hundred set screws but if the coupler does not fit snuggly it will always fail. Anyone that drives a T bucket 70 MPH has rocks in their head. These cars have zero aerodynamics and as light as they are they like to road wander.

All it needs is a brace from the collumn to the floor straight down between the seat & collumn😏

Nice save! Yep ... kit car. Save up a bunch of dough ... buy some parts and bolt it together after the high dollar paint guy gets done. Oh and don't forget the chrome, gotta have lots of that!

I noticed that you had to pull your self out of the car by the steering wheel, that is the problem. its going to need an under dash hard plate to mount the column.

I have Fiber glassed 1/4 plate to the firewall on the inside of those with a brace that grabs the column right under the dash. this was no bolt heads on the outside of the firewall and a 6 inch plate glassed to the body is pretty strong. I have also added a longer plate on the bottom mount like you have that goes under the carpet farther also 1/4 inch.

Good looking ride

That is still a totally unacceptable steering linkage for an over powered hot rod, still very unpredictable and dangerous.

1st off, that's the wrong placement for your steering. Being so low to the ground. You're a lucky man surviving what happened. Wooden floors/NO/ needs a 1/4" sheet thick of braced aluminum attached to the wood & the frame. When the woods rots, you still have something solid that will keep it together under acceleration. Great orange color & it sounds good too.

Good video. Subbed.

Professionally built... what's new!

i had a car do that. the wheel would turn 3 times before the car started to turn,try ding that at 24 mph entering a corner or an on ramp

You could put a big plate underneath the bottom of that Dash to spread the load that should have a bracket or get it to the firewall or something that's crazy

Nice T bucket! Losing steering at 70mph could have easily made it a very not so nice T bucket.

Looks like it has front brakes , may as well spend the dough and convert to rack and pinion.

Did someone put the handbrake on the t_bucket before releasing the tow cable😂.

That t bucket is nice

Any dude who owns a car like this and can’t work on it unless they elderly or handicapped, definitely doesn’t deserve a car like this!! Cause it doesn’t get more simple a car to fix than a freaking T bucket!!

That sure is a nice looking old Ford but that steering system really sucks.

That gold car with white top looks like a Willy’s areo

How the heck did the owner get it stopped and off the road without crashing??

I like it

Nice 'improvised' work.

Only good thing about that is the small block Chevy engine

Total Performance kit car. out of east coast US

Flabber gasted!

You'd have to be insane to drive that jukebox 70mph! Made for lookin at not driving, anything over city speeds for sure. I'll bet he gets a lot of control out of those 'near' bicycle tires. I'd probably flip over with those rear wheels if he tried a burnout.

Death trap.

Thev23 t needs a door

The green car with the white top in the background, what is it ??

What kind of wheels and what size are they

No support is a bad idea

You need a tripod

I want to know the name of the rims and size of it

thats an easy fix

Who makes those wheels? What size are they?

on mine i drilled thru used bolts and nuts much safer

Shaft in the box it broke

Shadetree engineering. It's tough to fix a crap install.

Wait did Chevy make a t?

The best looking part of this is the engine. The rest? Not so much. Ugly wheels, and the color could be better.

the reason the shaft failed,,,no colum drop. piss poor repair. the colum dose not just float there. going to kill some one. shame on the builder

"Total" performance..... they sell t-bucket kits, been around for a very long time.

What a shit box

I would never trust that…it should be inspected every oil change…yikes….!!!!

Typical ford

Still dodgy

That is a bodge the column needs to be braced the same thing is going to happen if you don't brace it if you're going to fix it do it right

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