Stupid me. I also forgot to finish installing my Maddat steering box brace. Now I can't drill the holes in the inner guard for the bolts.

Bummer that the previous guy cut off the gearbox mounts. Here are some pictures of my jerry rig gearbox. Also the tailshaft is 1 inch too long for the 60a gearbox. Still not sure what car the diff and tailshaft are from.

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You can see I changed from rope to wire and stuffed a rag in the rear of the gearbox to keep the leftover gear oil spilling out. Some people have suggested using a spare yoke from a tailshaft to plug the hole, great idea for future reference.

gives you perfect chance to make new and better angled gearbox mounts and sit the engine lower with lower engine mounts maybe

Thanks for the hint sexy Is that supposed to increase performance somehow?

Next was new steering.

Here is a picture of the steering before I installed replacement parts.

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That ball joint took me hours to remove.

Here is a picture after. New inner tie rods, outer tie rods, ball joint, radius rod bushings, draglink, idler arm. No new bushings for sway bar yet though. I don't know how important they are to replace but I will do them later. Also did not replace the lower control arm bushings. Again is it okay to reuse the pins and bolts? The tie rods, idler, draglink, and ball joint came will all NEW hardware. Only thing I replaced on my own was the sway bar mounting bolts which I bought High Tensile 8.8 rated bolts for. The rest is the standard bolts/nuts.

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I am hoping that I installed all this gear properly or else I'm gonna end up off the road balls deep in a cornfield somewhere, awwww shooot.

No seriously. I did not follow the workshop manual's torque settings because I don't own a torque wrench.

And I've been told you need a front alignment done when you do new steering.

Anything else to double check?

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Good stuff!!
Check out my thred when you get a chance.

Thanks d.w. I've seen your build thread as well. Very nice work.