I’ve done one power steering conversion that went through the front crossmember. This one I’m going under the crossmember but I'll need to hack into the engine mount.
Here’s the mount- 1/4” plate with standoffs welded on. I think three standoffs are 3/4” and one is 1/2”. Making these another 1/2” longer might be better to gain clearance under the crossmember.
Here’s the mount with the upper bolts thru the frame and tack welded on. I would have put sleeves in the frame to keep from crushing it but this frame was already reinforced with some heavy steel inside the “c” you can see I did box this section of frame with some 3/16 steel.
I had to hack quite a bit of engine mount for the shaft clearance.
I’ll definitely reinforce all this after I confirm the shaft clearance in the next couple of days. I’ll update here.
On the other end, after removing the old steering box I cut the column shaft so it is about 1.5” below the end of the column sleeve. I had a friend turn the bottom couple inches down to 7/8” diameter to accommodate the column end bushing from Advance Adapter. I plan to use a weld on U-joint here and a 3/4” double D shaft.
picture.
The first conversion I did I bought a nice floor mount bushing for the bottom of the column from Herm. This floor mount I copied from someone here. I welded some 1/8” sheet to the original floor piece then welded this Muffler clamp on a bit of standoff to be able to work the nuts.
I have a couple power pumps and a pump mount on the shelf somewhere. I’ll be able to get a picture of that hopefully later this week.
picture.
Here’s the mount- 1/4” plate with standoffs welded on. I think three standoffs are 3/4” and one is 1/2”. Making these another 1/2” longer might be better to gain clearance under the crossmember.
Here’s the mount with the upper bolts thru the frame and tack welded on. I would have put sleeves in the frame to keep from crushing it but this frame was already reinforced with some heavy steel inside the “c” you can see I did box this section of frame with some 3/16 steel.
I had to hack quite a bit of engine mount for the shaft clearance.
I’ll definitely reinforce all this after I confirm the shaft clearance in the next couple of days. I’ll update here.
On the other end, after removing the old steering box I cut the column shaft so it is about 1.5” below the end of the column sleeve. I had a friend turn the bottom couple inches down to 7/8” diameter to accommodate the column end bushing from Advance Adapter. I plan to use a weld on U-joint here and a 3/4” double D shaft.
picture.
The first conversion I did I bought a nice floor mount bushing for the bottom of the column from Herm. This floor mount I copied from someone here. I welded some 1/8” sheet to the original floor piece then welded this Muffler clamp on a bit of standoff to be able to work the nuts.
I have a couple power pumps and a pump mount on the shelf somewhere. I’ll be able to get a picture of that hopefully later this week.
picture.
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