Pat
There is a pretty good article in the tech section of chevytrucks.org in
which a guy installs power steering on his '56 pickup. He uses a kit from
Chevy Duty and a steering box from a '70s Chevy 1/2 ton. I'm looking at
this conversion pretty seriously for my '55 1st Series and would be real
interested to hear from anyone else who has experience with it.
Harry
----- Original Message -----
From: Pat Cossey <ccossey@seark.net>
To: Bruce Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net>; <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] power steering for the 41?
> Thanks Bruce, I`m learning more and more about these trucks. I`ll check
> into that. The system sounds a lot like the vet system, wish I could see
one
> on the 55-59 truck and see what it looks like.
>
> Pat 67 Nova SS
> 41 Art Deco chevy truck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Kettunen" <bekett@uslink.net>
> To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 10:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] power steering for the 41?
>
>
> > I'm going to go way out on a limb here, but I believe that the front
> > ends were pretty much the same from 41 through 59 (solid axle, leaf
> > springs, single tie rod.) Power steering was an option from 55-2
> > through 59 on these front ends. The power steering mechanism was
> > a different gearbox and a hydraulic cylinder that pushed on the tie
> > rod. I believe Classic Performance pretty much duplicates this
mechanism
> > for the TF trucks. Here is where I am really taking a flier. It
> > may be possible that these kits would work on an earlier solid axle
> > truck.
> >
> > Otherwise, you are pretty much stuck cobbling something together
> > from a newer steering box.
> >
> > Bruce K.
> > 57 3200
> >
> > At Tuesday, 3 December 2002, you wrote:
> >
> > >Guys Do any of you know if anyone offers a power steering unit that
> > will work
> > >with the stock steering arms with the straight axle in the 41?
> > I know someone
> > >makes a disk conversion kit for them .
> > >Thanks for any info.
> > >
> > >Pat 67 Nova SS
> > > 41 Art Deco chevy truck
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