I plan to run cowl steering on this car.
I searched and found a manual steering gear that does not require it to be reversed. Meaning the rotation of the steering wheel will swing the pitman arm the correct direction for my application. This is a 1971 box from a Mopar car.
For this to work I need to mount the box on its side and extend the output shaft so that it will pass through the driver side cowl.
First step was to cut off the spline part of the pitman. Then i spun it down to a 1.495 OD so that it will fit inside a 1.75"OD .120wall chunk of DOM tube (thanks Smike for the tube). Then drilled 1/2" holes in the tube so I could plug weld and surface weld the spline slug in to the tube.
Next issue is fitting a socket. The nut is 1-5/16" and a 1-5/16" socket OD will not fit in the extension tube. So I milled down the nut to 1-1/8".
Thats about 6 hours of work...