Rag joint replacement finished.
Rag joint replacement finished. I got my rag joint replaced today on my 1996 Z28 using Unbalanced Engineering's kit. All in all, it went pretty well, the steering shaft came out in about 15 minutes without even getting under the car. The only issue was that two of the rivets in the rag joint didn't want to come out and a buddy had to do some grinding and heating to get them out. The end result looks good and as soon as we get a warm day, I'll see how it drives. Also, I have Hooker long tube headers and it went right in, the bolts aren't making contact with the headers like I've seen in some reviews before.
Before:
After
Before:
After
I probably won't be able to feel as big a difference as some others since my car only has 33K miles, the joint wasn't that bad, but I figured I'd go ahead and get it done.
It was actually easy, that's the way it was, I photographed it before I removed it and put it back together the same way. The high bolt was on top and the lower bolt by the steering rack was pointed towards the drivers side corner of the radiator. It actually came in and out a lot easier than I thought it would.
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