I picked out a radiator that is going to stretch to both sides of the frame. It might make reaching the steering box hardware impossible to reach so I welded on little squares to hold the nuts. I wan't sure if you could weld the nuts directly (figured that would make them weaker or something). I also trimmed the bolts.



I needed to lengthen the steering shaft to meet the steering box. Cut the shaft and measured the gap with the slip joint compressed,then with it extended, added it togther and divided by two and came up with a 5 1/8" extension. I used .75" DOM that was around 3/16 thick. (Atleast I think it was DOM, there was no seam, got it in the drop pile.) The Isuzu steering box clamp is the exact same size as the toyota, luckily.

Here is the method I used to jig up the extension. I little piece of angle iron would have been much easier but I didn't have one. Laugh at my silly methods but the end result is perfectly straight.

Clamp a piece of steel to the shaft one way...



Then do it again the other way... And tack it.



Sand down the tacks...



Then I ran a bead on each seam.


I wasn't confident with this considering it is my steering so I reinforced it with a kind of splint with a piece of 3/4" pipe. The pipe was cut lenghtwise and I cut some out to make a gap. Tacked it then clamped it in a vise to weld.


Then I welded the little gap.


Skipped around and here is the final result. Came out nice.