Claude:
My complements on an excellent job of documenting what it took to do your
conversion. I too used the Chevy Duty kit and found their pitman arm worked
great (although I lowered my front end by removing two leafs from the front
springs). Maybe that's why the Chevy Duty pitman arm worked so well with my
set up. One especially frustrating part for me was having to remove the
steering column(several times) and finding it was too long (I had more than
30 degrees on my steering shaft joints which caused them to 'catch' when I
turned the wheel). I finally cut almost eight inches off the length of my
late 80's Pontiac Gran Prix steering column to get the steering shaft
joints down to below 30 degrees. Now I know why so many who have done this
conversion prefer to use steering columns from GM minivans (they are much
shorter).
You didn't give much detail about the power steering pump, I had some major
hassles getting the correct engine mounting brackets, crank mounted belt
pulleys and water pump pulleys. I also had to move my radiator mounting
bracket four inches towards the front to get all the new pulleys, brackets
and flex fan to fit. Overall it was alot more work and tinkering to get
everything to work out than I had originally thought (or the installation
instructions from the vendor led me to believe). I'm very pleased with the
outcome and would do it again.
Again, well done!!
Carl Ham
'56 Chevy TF Stepside
Pontiac, IL
>From: Claude <cramey@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Claude <cramey@earthlink.net>
>To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Power Steering in a 55 second series
>Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:53:03 -0500
>
>I did mine the "power2" method
>http://home.earthlink.net/~cramey2/59ps.htm
>
>Claude
>
>Hanlon, Bill (ISS Houston) wrote:
>
> >There are a couple of options if you want to keep the straight axle.
> >
> >Check out http://www.classicperform.com/power1.html
> >and http://www.classicperform.com/power2.htm
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Old Chevy Pickup [mailto:oldchevypickup@hotmail.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 12:41 PM
> >To: oletrucks@autox.team.net
> >Subject: [oletrucks] Power Steering in a 55 second series
> >
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >What is involved with putting power steering on a 55 second series truck.
> >Truck has a 350 small block with the original I beam front axcel and
> >steering column. Would like to retain the straight axcel and steering
> >column.
> >
> >Thanks in ADvance for any insight.
> >
> >Dan Jacobsen - PA
> >'49 3100 327/powerglide
> >'55.1 3100 rodstoration 350/350 MII
> >'48 4400 Front sheet metal on a '87 chassis
> >'51 6400 Deluxe Cab and front sheet metal going on above '87 chassis
> >'35 Dodge Business Coupe - All original
> >'35 Dodge Business Coupe - parts car
> >
> >
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