Re: PS Pressure vs. steering "feel"
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Re: PS Pressure vs. steering "feel"



On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

http://www.chevelles.com/techref/ftecref29.html
This is one place that lists some of the specs on the different boxes

It points to the table:


http://www.chevelles.com/techref/shea_3.html

I'm trying to determine what the ALPHA CODE means. ANyone know? Do
all Saginaw boxes have the same input/output shafts?

I've been trying to determine how much variation there are between
different boxes, and it's impossible to discern without a Saginaw
catalog.




Mark Price mprice@xxxxxxxxxx Morgantown, WV 69 AMC rambler, 4.0L, EFI, 5 speed 65 Ambassador Conv, 327 AUTO, Basketcase 01 S-10 CREWCRAP 4X4



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: mail-From-mprice-westco.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:38:06 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Sandwich Maker wrote:

feel is controlled by a torsion bar in the ps gear valve.  the thicker
the bar, the more the feel; they range from 0.165" dia to 0.204".
most are on the small end; something like a z28 would have a 0.195".
they also showed the early zj box was a good choice; fast ratio,
medium-high feel, wide turning angle.

i learned this from a page in a gm-oriented website.  it had specs for
saginaw gears from the mid '60s to mid '90s at least.  unfortunately,
i can't find the url again...

OK, it's RTFM time! The time for this sub-project for me is not now, but I do want to eventually find a 2.5 turn box, and that will be the time for this research.

Thanks for the info!
























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