As February rolled around, I turned back to the Belvedere with an eye towards Mopars At The Strip. I hadn't been since 2008, and that was the first time I took part in the MoPower cruise up from Phoenix, which was Dad, Ben and I in an underpowered 360 4 door dually pulling two race cars, so the cruise up wasn't exactly thrilling!
One of the things Rachael had complained about on Drag Week was loose steering on the Belvedere, and we tracked the problem down to the shaft coupler. Darryl shook his head when he saw the slop in it, "Someone put that together wrong, I've got a re-build kit, just drop the column out and change it now, with the head and header out of the way, it'll be easy!"
"Uh, I've never removed a column from one of these cars..."
He looked at me incredulously, "WHAT? You've rebuilt engines, transmissions, rearends, and never pulled a column?"
"Nope"
"4 Bolts or so in the floor, couple under the dash, 15 minutes!"
"You said it would only take us an hour to put the Hemi Leafs under this thing!"
He laughed, "Didn't account for 40+ years of rusted, caked on crap under this car!"