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Speaking of rack & pinnion, the Pacer R&P
is "highly desirable" should anyone here find them in salvage yards. Sadly it is
usually the only thing anyone wants off Pacers. My 76 Pacer X coupe I tried to
sell here years ago.....for $150 was a complete car, had knock in engine, but
had tons of new stuff like exhaust, and big rims and tires (which I pulled, hell
that was $1400 of rims and tires, they are on my Rebel convertible now) but
tried like hell to sell this thing, finally three days before I was to haul it
off, a fellow called and said he wanted it and would give me $150 for it. He
drove it onto his trailer, drove to Hempstead, TX, pulled off the R&P for
his 50 Ford truck, and well, there it sat, not sure what happened to it,
probably hauled it off.
But I get at least a dozen calls per year,
sometimes more, for non AMCers wanting R&P setups off Pacers!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Rack and
pinion steering
Ed, I have installed a rack-n-pinion setup off an old Subaru (manual unit
off '80-84, cheap as dirt around here Like 40-50 bucks at the JY). I'm still
sorting out this thing. I cut the jap metric inner tie rods off and welded the
AMC inner theaded tie rod end to it. Made custom mounts welded to the front
crossmember and shortened the steeing column shaft, installed two universal
joints and the Subaru flex joint at the rack end. It's not perfect yet but
like I said I'm still 'tweaking' it. This is on 'The Mix 2'. I'm sure
someone makes outer tie rods that would fit the AMC spindle and have the same
metric thread as the 'Ru inner tie rod so no welding would be neccisary, but
at the time I started this conversion I had some time constraints. And yes Doc
I know welding in the steering system is a NO-NO but I've never had a problem
yet (allways made sure I had a certified welder doing the final welding for
me). Gary 'The Mix' -----Original
Message----- From: Ed Veneck <edveneck@xxxxxxxxx> To:
BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Mon, 15 May 2006 17:19:54 -0700
(PDT) Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Rack and pinion steering
Has anyone every converted their Gremlin over to a
rack and pinion steering setup?
Ed
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