Reply to "Just bought a "barn-find" CMC kit"

Stan Galat

@Lane Anderson posted:
Yeah, after witnessing Mike’s failure the rule should be “absolutely NO crush cages!”

@MikelB is a very thorough, very meticulous man. He inspected his crush-cage before coming to the mountains to play. It failed catastrophically.

The crush-cage is meant to keep the column from impaling the driver in a crash. I've got a double u-joint steering arrangement (which is safer), but I've always liked the look and simplicity of the old-school VW columns and turn signals.

We all pick our poison. It's been repeated this 1000 times on this site, but these cars are not safe. Thinking otherwise is foolish.

I'd rather risk the column killing me in a crash than losing all steering without warning. Your mileage may vary.

10/11/207:08 AM

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