Re: steering boxes, power to manual

[vonhench <vonhench@xxxxxxx>]

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Neal, most steering gear are interchangeable. The only difference  I heard 
was from Rick Ehrenberg is that the A body cars had  sleeve or bushing 
bearings rather than roller bearings. He went onto to say that in a limited 
street use I'd be OK using an A body gear in my 65 Coronet.  Steer & Gear 
only rebuild manual gear boxes with bushings"cause you can get the desired 
feel and torque settings when turning the wheel is by using bushings" and 
they get tighter tolerances. So I guess the answer is that you should be 
able to use an A body steering gear in your application i.e. lightened front 
end . The Pitman arm should interchange, but please make sure that the ball 
joint part has free range of motion with out sticking (cause I've been told 
they can wear out). Also they are less costly from Steer & Gear than most 
other suppliers. I guess you know that you'll have to modify your steering 
shaft.
Von hench
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert neal zimmerman" <northwestweirdo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 7:51 PM
Subject: steering boxes, power to manual


my mopar performance chassis book says that the steering boxes pretty
much interchange between  all the Mopar
(A - body/B-Body) cars  from about 62-75,A or B body, it doesnt matter.
Hard for me to believe but thats what it says.
  So in my 64 Polara AWB project  I want to dump the power steering and
  stick in a manual box I pulled from my 65 Barracuda that i scrapped
  out.
  Is this gonna work? What about the pitman arm? Will the pitman arm
  coming off the Polaras power steering box work, or do i need to find
  the correct pitman arm as well? The barracuda arm certainly wouldnt
  be right would it?
  thanks for any help,
    Neal Zimmerman, Eugene oregon

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