I have seen the light and it comes from a Ford Ranger. Early 2wd ranger pickups had this steering box. The sector shaft is like 10" long, and the entire unit is plenty strong. yes, it does need reversed, and no, it's NOT a big deal. I stopped by my shop on the way home from real job today, and pulled the box apart to make sure it would reverse without too much work. 20 minutes later it was reversed and back together (no kidding) It reverses just like a Corvair. I didn't have my camera on me to do***ent the actual procedure, but next week I will do a full tech post on not only reversing the box, but what it takes to get it mounted properly (ie, well supported and braced), pitman arm construction, etc. On this application I'm going to turn down the splined part of the pitman arm and weld it inside a length of tubing, and attach a fabricated pitman arm to that, so I'll cover that all in the tech post if anyone wants to see it. Anyhow, here's what these things look like in case you stumble across one.
Wanted to point out that the main reason I'm so damn giddy about this is that these are literally like $10 boxes in the salvage yards. It seems I almost never discover a really low buck solution for something this critical, so I'm really excited about it. Normally I'm not a ****.
Brother, Please do share......I thought I hadda' a **** hot idea for cowl steering, but this may be better....
tha tlooks ALOT like the box in my 1962 fairlane!!! as far as I know I think the fairlane box was source from saginaw of all places... a couple guys have taken a GM PS box and put the fairlane shaft into it and welded on an extension on the housing of the box for a bolt in PS setup
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