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The first job on the shop was to make a new workbench, so I went to homedepot, bought some wood, some 2x4’s and got this It has some great natural light by the day, but I was going to be working by night mostly So I bought some lights, which were the second job in order to make the shop more usable. The car was lovely lit from one side, and could be turned around easily to work on the other side. Onto the real first job to the car while I was there, I wasn’t able to locate welding gas so I couldnt . The TE27 comes from factory with a steering box, it’s a big, heavy, and old tech, while I was reading on forums and groups, many people use the steering rack of a KP61 Starlet, and most ideas online use parts that are impossible to get over here, but luckily Starlets are everywhere and very cheap. So I got a starlet subframe, rack and column. Why the subframe? You might ask Just to get the steering rack mounts Then I chopped the TE27 steering stops, and cleaned the subframe And done Well, not so easy, if you want to keep a good steering, there are a lot of measurements involved, I did my best to follow all of them. First of all I needed to find the centerline of the subframe, the steering rack, and the original steering bar You want that the pivot point on the suspension arm, is as close to the pivot on the steering rack/steering bar as possible. As you can see, the pivot on the original steering is inwards, and with the starlet rack it moves outwards (always measuring from the centerline). As you can see the Starlet is longer. But luckily without much modifications everything fits just fine, I just had to use the starlet inner tie rod, and the corolla outer tie rod, they screw right on and allows for the “correct geometry”, time will tell if everything works All the old parts, and missing from the photo is the steering box that must weigh like 20kg by itself. A little video of everything working together By now it is 10 of December 2019