kkoykka

I am in the middle of restoring my 56 Vette, and I am about to start taking the front end apart. I have to rebuild everything, including the steering box and column. Has anyone done that with the column and is there anything special I need to know about separating the column from the steering box? I see Mid America has a kit to redo the column which is around $500, which I believe includes whats needed to redo the box also. Then I am going to be redoing all the suspension parts. My other question is whats everyones opinion of keeping it original and rebuilding the stock components or upgrading to a new style IFS set up? Does anyone know if the ride quality would be drastically different if using the new set up to justify the cost and then having to get an aftermarket column? I am leaning towards keeping it original and only upgrading to disk brakes. Any help would be appreciated.
Kevin

mike16

there are only a limited number of origonals....finite.

DZAUTO

Is anyone going to help this boy out?
Oh well, I guess I will.

http://www.chevytalk.org/fusionbb/sh...hp?tid/218134/

http://www.chevytalk.org/fusionbb/sh...hp?tid/225413/

Tom Parsons

kkoykka

Tom, thanks for those two links. The pictures and descriptions are great, and gave me way more info then I thought I'd ever get. Ill be printing that out and taking it out to the garage!
Thanks again,
Kevin

skeew

http://www.socalsacc.com/C1%20Steering%20Box.htm

http://rarecorvettes.com/RARE/Parts.html

54greg

You can get side tracked really easily by reading all the hype.

The kingpin suspension in my 54 and 56 were trash and worked really bad. With an inexpensive rebuild kit, some instruction from this forum and the AIM they work great. After I rebuilt the first king pin setup it is suprisingly simple and extremely quick to R & R. The steering boxes are a pain but not difficult.

I've been driving my 54 for about 3 years and never regret rebuilding the stock suspension. No need for modern parts here. I frequently consider adding front disc brakes but the suspension performs like a champ

kkoykka

Thanks for the additional links, they are very helpful, and thanks for the thoughts on keeping it original. This all helped make up my mind. Keeping it original. Thanks again everyone.