Guest Anonymous Posted February 26, 2001 Share Posted February 26, 2001 Well, I'm taking the plunge and have decided to do a power steering conversion with a 85-93 mustang rack. The mounting of the rack to the crossmember should be straight forward. Does anybody have a source for 9/16"-18 female rod ends to use as tie rod ends?-I've looked in all my racing parts catalogs and this doesn't seem to be a standard size. This little part would simplify the tie rod fabrication greatly. I think I've seen Terry's(blueovalz) writeup and others info on this swap. I don't want to use the stock mustang tie rods so I can use spacers between the steering arm and the rod end to adjust for bump steer. As for the rest of the swap, I am going to use a early chevy pump, an adjustable pressure valve made by Heidt's steet rod to adjust steering boost, a aftermarket GM tilt column and borgesen U joints. This setup will be expensive, but I want the steering to be very safe and foolproof. Any thoughts on my setup? I know this conversion will be a bunch of work, but I want to drive my car everyday in traffic, and the high effort I have now makes that a pain (I have 245/50-16 tires up front which does'nt help. ------------------ Tony 1972 240Z w/ZZ430/T56/GTO body kit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy 77zt Posted February 26, 2001 Share Posted February 26, 2001 you might try a late 96-up ford explorer rack.bolts are vertical instead of horizontal.it is 2.75 turns lock to lock.dry a industrial bearing supply house for rod ends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueovalz Posted February 26, 2001 Share Posted February 26, 2001 Hi Tony One other thing I wanted to say about this is that I am using a grade 8 1/2" bolt through the steering arm, through the appropriate spacers (bump steer), and lastly, through the rod ends. A 9/16" rod end will screw onto the rack ends, but I did not want to enlarge the hole in the steering arm to accomodate a 9/16" bolt (cannot find a 9/16" rod end with a 1/2" head). In hind sight, this is not a big deal, and would do it this way instead of using the 1/2" bolt. It's just that the smaller bolt fits real good into the steering arm, and with grade 8 washers on either side of the arm boss, it was worked very well. Terry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted February 27, 2001 Share Posted February 27, 2001 Thanks for the info. I will probably drill out my steering arms to 9/16. Right now the holes taper slightly, so making them a constant .5625 is probably a good idea for a through bolt anyway. ------------------ Tony 1972 240Z w/ZZ430/T56/GTO body kit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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