Flaming river steering column joints.... just thinking against the stock coupler

[Nacho-RT74]

couple of weeks ago FLG asked me about the use of this joint against the stock coupler. This afternoon I was making a thread on a FB group I'm managing ( CLASSIC MOPAR GROUP DE VENEZUELA ) posting about how this stock coupler must be assemblied and save the very common down here, steering wheel play that ppl never fix really ( because they don't know about it ).

Then something come into my mind ; Our cars are UNIBODY so they are flexible somehow. We have two fixed pieces, one is the steering box, and another fixed piece, the steering column, both mounted on VERY DIFF PARTS of the unibody and in fact very critical different parts...

WE DO HAVE IN AND OUT interaction between them with the stock coupler, being the shoes slides inside the coupler as far the car flexs, so... wouldn't be the flaming river joint somekind dangerous on our cars ?

73/74 are in fact EVEN MORE CRITICAL due the isolated K frame

Thinking one part damaged on all along the assembly is the colapsing pins at collapsible shafts, being colapsed ( wow, my mind didn't colapsed to say that LOL )... or the rubber coupler on those what has them

Think about it! 

[FLG]

Read here Nacho,

http://www.bigblockdart.com/forum/showthread.php?9125-Mopar-Action-Comments-about-Using-Flaming-River-Coupler


General consensus is opposite of that article in the beginning the the thread (dont blame em)

I agree and dont think theres enough movement to be concerned, unless your getting the front end off the ground..in which case you should already have the chassis stiffened. I think for the average driver it simply dosnt move enough, and i think for the race driver he or she probably has the chassis improvements to limit it enough. Dont forget the column will also move some.

[Nacho-RT74]

well it looks somebody already thought about that before me LOL...

anyway, is still something to think about depending on the local driving conditions or the car purpouse