Re: 67 American power steering conversion?
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Re: 67 American power steering conversion?



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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