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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 4 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 4 | Where do I begin on converting my 52 1/2 ton to power steering? I've heard certain power steering pumps from certain old cars will work but do not know particulars.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: May 2001 Posts: 7,440 | The easiest way is to put a knob on your steering wheel. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 399 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 399 | I agree, hard to find anymore cause i guess the government said they were dangerous...I've got a beaut off an old farm tractor | | | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 141 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 141 | I've been pursuing an answer to the same problem on my '59 Apache solid-axle P/U with drag-link steering. I currently have two potential solutions. 1) Use a C-3 Corvette power ram set-up with the valve/sensor hooked to the pitman arm and running to the driver's side spindle replacing the old drag-link. The hydraulic tubes would run to the power ram, which would run from the frame to the center of the cross-linkage. 2) I discovered that the '78 Dodge truck P.S. came in regular rotation and reverse-rotation. If one took a reverse-rotation box (like a Cardone 277515) and turned it 90 degrees such that the pitman shaft ran through the frame rail like the original box (at least on mine), then it would function as a drag-link box with the pitman arm hanging downward. This would require fabbing up a new mounting plate running at right-angles to the frame rail, but if you're handy it could work well. To turn right (at least on mine), the drag-link has to move to the rear, which would be counter-clockwise rotation of the pitman shaft. Good luck!
Apache Kid | | | | | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 55 Member | | Member Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 55 | | | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,109 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,109 | pirsch, go to www.brotherstrucks.com or www.cclassicperform.com. the latter is a ram type and pricey, 699.00 but this should be a long term investment. i have had to convince myself of this many times because i tend to be on the frugal side (cheap) hope this helps. ron
Ron, The Computer Greek I love therefore I am.1954 3100 Chevy truckIn the Gallery 2017 Buick Encore See more pix1960 MGA Roadster Sold 7/18/2017
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Ron, The Computer Greek I love therefore I am.1954 3100 Chevy truckIn the Gallery 2017 Buick Encore See more pix1960 MGA Roadster Sold 7/18/2017
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,109 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 4,109 | sorry again my catalog is 4 yrs old now the kit is 899.00 WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEW!!!!!!!!!
Ron, The Computer Greek I love therefore I am.1954 3100 Chevy truckIn the Gallery 2017 Buick Encore See more pix1960 MGA Roadster Sold 7/18/2017
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 452 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 452 | Don't the Toyota 4x4 boxes mount the same as the AD boxes? I've seen then recommended for Furds, but couldn't understand why not for Chevy's.
Current fleet (subject to change w/o notice) \'49 GMC 3/4-Ton , 60 Austin Healey Frog-eye Sprite (some assembly required), 2011 Dodge Avenger, 2015 Jeep Cherokee. No, they don't all run. My other ride is a (B737)no, (B767)no, A320.... Update... was Embraer E190, now Boeing B787. Knowledge is a wonderful thing, but ignorance means you don't know you can't do something.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | I have one of them knobs and it works great,, one of those dice type,,,,,,hey cletis,, willy is coming to Ft. worth the fourth of July along with Dylan and some others,,,,,boy that place will be up in smoke..
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | |
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