Well, I got quite a bit done over the last few days, including spending 20 minutes typing this out, only to hit the wrong button & lose it all
First up was setting the steering column in position. Using a piece of 30x5mm flat bar, I made a tab to hold the bottoom end of the column to the front of the frame & set the angle of the column. It was at this point that I realised just how short the column was so, I set about extending it.
I found a piece of round bar that fit snugly inside the column & a piece of pipe that would work as an extention once I turned it down a bit.
Then to fit the steering wheel boss to the extension. size was almost perfect but, the boss is supposed to have a thread in one side... note:
supposed to... I decided to tap what was left of the M6 thread out to M8 & use a button head allen key bolt to fasten it so, off to Express Industrial Supplies for... well, supplies. I also bought a bunch of M6 nuts, bolts & washers for the sproket & brake disc hangers (I'm gonna need 'em eventually, right), 3 for the steering wheel & two M8 x 60mm bolts for the steering column upper support (I'm getting to that...)
Back home I cut & drilled two 100mm lengths of 25 x 5mm flat bar to fit the $7 sprint kart column support I previouosly picked up at the local go kart store. Then I took the two pre bent lengths of tube, cut them to length & crushed the ends to fit the flat bar. Then I had to carefully "adjust" the top, crushed section so it was square with the bottom section. Then I cut the bottom section to length & bird mouthed the ends...
on the wrong angle 
what a mess! Thankfully, it all worked out in the end...
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