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I guess it was to a non optimized steering geometry.
sometimes (with the old couplers) the insulator felt off
and the alignment never looked 100% straight.
i think it went better because the flaming river one
uses a universal joint that compensates this miss alignment.
last weekend we had the biggest car meeting in north germany
and i tried the super bee from a friend. 24:1 with the
original steering wheel and the normal coupler.
it was as heavy as mine to steer. big surprise for him.



Be careful when you ditch the pot coupling, and, especially, the rag joint on cars with rubber isolated K-members or stub frames: The U-joint can't compensate for length variations as the car flexes, eventually causing column and/or chuck bearing problems.

Flaming River gets away with this with THEIR columns since theirs telescope freely (no nylon pin, no rust, etc.)

Rick



Do you agree and/or have experiance with the universal joint having less friction/resistance than the steering pot coulper.

If you have a pot coupler and you knocked out the nylon pin would that allow for telescoping and no other "issues"????