Yeah, it's goofy. I think I'll see if I can find a couple of thin washers with a .750 ID to slip over the shaft.

Went to True Value, Lowes, Fastenal and a local specialty hardware joint with no luck finding a proper shim. Wound up finding it on McMaster-Carr. Mail-order washers...ugh.

Building a car from scratch will be fun they said!

Wait, the hub is bottoming out on the bell of the column?...around the outside?

If you shim that up then you are not engaging the splines all the way, right?

I have spun .030" off of the bottom of the hub in the lathe before to correct that......if that is what is happening.

That'd be the right way to do it Donny.

Of course, True and I are hacks :lol:

You're right.

[_ word that rhymes with spit _]

Gotta find a machine shop to turn down the hub.

It's actually a common problem. Cars have come in with suspension/steering complaints.... "The steering wheel doesn't return" and the hub is bound up on the column bell.

Just thought this through...:headscratch:

If you take 30 thou off the bottom of the hub, wouldn't that move the hub closer to the column base and therefore add to the problem? True and I needed to shim the hub out in order to move the hub away from the column base.

What am I missing here? :sieg:

Nah Ron the spline should bottom out and then the 30 thou of the outer bottom would give clearance.

I had the same problem but it wasn't .030. I just used my sanding disc and took a bit off the bell then painted it. I had the unpainted column.