Little accomplished

I only worked on the car once this week, really. I did manage to get the U-joint that connects to the steering rack connected. I got the shafts going through the firewall okay, though I did have to take apart the U-joints that were previously connected to the other shafts, even though I had used LOC-TITE on them. I got the original bearing installed in the firewall, but the new bearing did not quite fit with the shaft that has the steering wheel bolted to it. I tried force. I tried oil. I tried freezing the shaft so it would shrink a tiny bit, but that still was not quite enough. It is so close, though. I think I will try freezing it again and carefully heating the bearing so it will expand the hole that the shaft fits through.

Right now, I cannot even work on the car if I wanted to because my garage door finally broke good and proper. The huge spring that helps lift the door snapped. Thank goodness it was safety-wired or the Cobra body would have been damaged. I will get that fixed very soon. I took a couple of pictures, but will wait on posting them until next week when hopefully the steering system will be completed.