Re: [DML] Re: Rear Engined Porsche 911 w/ Flexible Steering Coupling

[gmfm1@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I have been working on cars now for over 40 years. I have always referred to what is in the car and encasing the shaft as the steering column and the shaft that connects the steering wheel to the steering box or rack as the steering shaft.
Gary Masie

----- Original Message -----
From: content22207 
Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 11:24 am
Subject: [DML] Re: Rear Engined Porsche 911 w/ Flexible Steering Coupling
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Actually I was banned because I told Sean to fuck himself. Let 
> you in on a little secret: I owned #5939 long before DMCTalk 
> ever existed. I will own it long after DMCTalk disappears into 
> the ether. My ownership experience does not depend upon Sean Mullins.
> 
> As far as steering columns are concerned: I have been messing 
> with cars for the better part of three decades. In my part of 
> the world, the part under the hood has always been called the 
> "steering column" (sometimes people call it the "lower column"). 
> 
> I have never removed the lower column without pulling the upper 
> column out first (body bushing replacement), but I am about to 
> see if I can't get #2508's out with the inner column in place -- 
> lazy I guess. If I can, I will order my own super column this 
> afternoon. Stainless components cost about 20% more than carbon, 
> but I think I will treat myself.
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
> 
> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "soma576" wrote:
> >
> > Bill, knock it off. The interior part is the steering column 
> and the linkage you are talking about is the intermediate shaft. 
> It was even called the intermediate shaft when I bought the 
> super shaft Darryl Tinnerstedt used to sell about a decade ago. 
> It has nothing to do with which country you are in and 
> everything to do with you being impossible to deal with and why 
> you have been banned from DMCTalk. Get a clue. 
> > 
> > Andy
> > 
> 
> 
>


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