Re: 67 American power steering conversion?

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

One more detail on swapping pumps and steering boxes -- some time in the
late 70's/early 80's everyone (and AMC) went from flare fittings to
O-ring fittings for the hoses.

The good news is, fitting itself can be swapped between the two; on the
pump and the box, it is simply threaded in. I converted an 80's pump to
drive my 1970 steering box by doing this (since it was OK and in place).




On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 16:23, Matt Haas wrote:
> Ken,
> 
> The swap is pretty straight forward using factory parts. The only parts 
> that are hard to get are the brackets, pulley, steering box adapter, and 
> rag joint (actually, that one may not be too bad, you can probably get it 
> for a GM car). Everything else can be purchased from an auto parts store. 
> Take a look at http://www.mattsoldcars.com/RestoreAmerican/powersteer.shtml
> for a how-to. You can use 1966 - 1974 small cars (American, Hornet, 
> Gremlin) as donors. 64 and 65 American's may also be good donors but I'm 
> not 100% sure if they used Saginaw power steering or not.
> 
> Matt
> 
> At 05:48 PM 3/13/2006 -0500, you wrote:
> >" From: usfl_fan1@xxxxxxxxx
> >"
> >" Sounds like a giant headache...otherwise, how hard is it to rebuild a
> >" manual steering box for an AMC? Where would I find the parts for it
> >" and lastly, where would be a good place to find a used one?
> >"
> >" Thanks again,
> >" Ken
> >
> >dunno how hard, but like the power box it's a saginaw, used by legions
> >of gm cars and light trucks up into the '90s at least.  parts and used
> >boxes are plentiful whereever you find gm.
> >
> >btw i put a fast manual box [16:1, 3t] into my '68 american.  parking
> >is a bit tough if i can't roll the car, but i can one-hand it at any
> >normal road speed and i don't consider myself an athlete.
> >
> >i like it a lot.  steering is now fast enough that i almost never have
> >to move my hands on the wheel.
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