How to: Ruin a perfectly good C10

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Originally Posted by SCOTI

And improving things is a problem somehow?

I actually have been considering this shortening mod w/an old automatic van tilt I have had for y e a r s..... I figured it would be worth a shot so I could get a better angle to the PB placed R&P under-hood by getting it closer to the firewall while also getting it closer to the dash @ the same time on the inside.

Appreciate sharing the parts/pieces related info for sure.

No problem, glad to help. Highly recommend the CPP piece, if it will work for what you’re doing. Money well spent not having to engineer a bottom bracket and bearing setup.

Your motives echo mine, while trying to keep the steering shaft to two joints only... we’ll see if that works out. I had already moved the column closer to the dash, which just made the under hood angles that much worse. I think trying to keep the shifter mechanism would add a level of complexity, but these things are pretty simple once you’ve taken them apart and put them back together five or six times...