Originally Posted by Q858
Several years ago I had a 57 BelAir with factory power steering. Has anyone tried adapting that system to one of these trucks?

That one is similar to the Ford setup I mentioned. It uses a frame-mounted boost cylinder attached to the relay rod and a direction-sensing hydraulic switching valve attached to the Pitman arm, plus a whole bunch of flexible hoses that are prone to leakage and/or getting snagged on road debris. It was a pretty lousy system 50 years ago, and it hasn't improved with age. The generator-mounted hydraulic pump was also problematic. Some of us who remember the 57 models when they were new don't share the nostalgia about them that some of the younger generations seem to have.
Jerry

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