240z steering rack interchangeable with 280z steering rack?

[Guest 73Turbo240z]

checking out this part:

 

http://classifieds.hybridz.org/showproduct.php?product=1001

 

i need to redo some stuff on my rack, and once i priced out all the parts its about what this fella is asking for his, so i figured kill 2 birds with one stone... if its interchangeable w/ my 240z?

[Guest 73Turbo240z]

anyone...?

[280Zone]

Motorsports catalog shows them as different part numbers as well as the cross member being different.

[Guest 73TPIZ]

Don't give up looking.

 

Somewhere I've heard that the '78 will bolt up but has a quicker ratio, hence the possible different part numbers. I think when i get ready to get a rebuilt one for my '73, i'll order the '78 and try it. My local parts guy would let me send it back without a restocking fee.

 

Check around at small parts houses and see if they'll let you try it and send it back if it won't fit. Even if it costs 10 bucks in restocking, it'd be worth a try.

 

Send "Nullbound" on here a PM. I think it was his friend Paul that told me that.

[zcarnut]

The early [1970-73] and later [1974-78] racks are interchangeable provided you swap the corresponding rack bushings.

 

The later front crossmember has two additional gussets for improved strength but otherwise they will also interchange.

[Guest 73Turbo240z]

The early [1970-73] and later [1974-78] racks are interchangeable provided you swap the corresponding rack bushings.

 

The later front crossmember has two additional gussets for improved strength but otherwise they will also interchange.

 

hmm i ordered a energy suspension master bushing kit and it came with more steering rack bushings than i needed, perhaps this is why.

[Rumnhammer]

I just tried to install the bushings from a master bushing set on a 75 280z and the steering rack bushings were too small!

 

I checked the box and it said for 74-78 and the corrisponding steering rack bushing tab said same thing. I think that either Nissan had a 240 rack left and put it on here, (likely since this is an early 280) or someone else in the life of this car put a 240 rack on. the bushing with the round hole is not thick enough to fill the gap, and the oblong round bushing is not big enough to go all the way around the rack! I guess I'll try a set for the 240 and see if that works, just a bummer because it sets me back a bit.

Anybody else have this problem? or could anyone conferm the bushings for the 240 rack are larger then the 280?

Chris Rummel

[RedNeckZ]

You can put the 280Z rack on the 240Z. It is a bolt on, for most of it. You have to order the 280Z bushings for the rack. The 240Z bushings are to small and will not fit properly. But most of the companies out there have them for sale as individual items. I do know it will work, because I have it done on my 1971 Z. I have three complete frontends sitting on my back deck. So I have a lot of them to pick from. Good Luck, Rich.

[Twoeightnine]

Contact member "Darrell" he is working on steering options and has done alot of reasearch on the matter.