ZZ's...Thanks, I used to have a programme to reduce pixel count, but can't locate it anymore....might have been another disc drive, and well been a while...sorry guys for the confusions, as it's a total of about 3 megs of information,...the diagrams are a meg alone, which is silly but the scanner makes .jpg out of them...just a drawing, think it was a freaking landscape outdoor shot or something....

GENE

 

I have plenty of space on my website if you need a location to have them loaded - otherwise i await anxiously norvals posting :steering:

 

Wifey used to do a small amount of web page design work, I cant'r remember jack schitt about that.....do it maybe as much as once a year...
so I got with her to post the latest adaptor block pix in the site...there are two...the old original with the tie rods facing backward, grease fitting and face going forward...and the other newest version with the tie rods facing up and the stems more or less down..... that is the one what works well now...

OK, maybe I can get with wife later on and post on my site, if I have enough room....maybe delete other pix....and post some thoughts....

GENE

 

Here you go, sorry it took so long!!! Was closing on my new house today!!!:party:
The scans were a little hard to read so I darkened them up. Background is now grey...














[Modified by zZArAZz, 10:31 PM 6/20/2003]

 

Thanks for posting that ZZ, I can't beleive some of those pix were sent out unedited, I thought I trimmed them down so to cut the pixel count...freaking computer....
at any rate, the mounting strap shown with the one end straightened out and welded in a bit is used on the pass side, the blue bracket, on the two holes in the welded on section, one in the end piece and the other on the plate going the other way 90*.....the miscellanious holes in that piece are from other attempts, than final, like I said, that's prototype, pay attention to the drawing, those are the holes used and needed.....

the red bracket is driver's side, and of course went through the same development stages, just seemed to weather it a bit better, so looks cleaner...in fact it's about the 3rd bracket made, the other's being so messed up they were junk....Point is with the driver's bracket here, you may put spacers between it and the frame, I have it mounted 1/2 inch off the frame with LARGE diameter thick spacers between it and the frame, for plenty of support....note the steel used is hardware store available, and easy formed, just a couple of cuts, but a BUNCH of welding....the square channel for the red bracket it two angle iron pieces welded to make a tube, and then cut at angle and welded in....same as the blue piece....making a box that's 1.125x1 inches square profile, and 1/8 thick walls, in other words, for the length it is, and that 1/8 thick steel brace coming out at that odd angle going to the power steering ram bolt...that triangulates against that frame strong enough for any purpose it's likely to see....

I did not document the steering input linkage too well, except for the pic on my site there, reason being is that may vary quite a bit given the headers and engine type....you could even use say a steeroids type setup with 3 universal joints if you wanted to....I used a junkyard cobble up, and it's been good for about a 1.5 years of daily use....I keep checking, but been little to say except for a couple of troubles to do with my assembly, nothing dangerous, just my technique...not anything caused by use....like loose bolts on the flex/rag joint, use locktite, that sort of thing, weld the shafts together, as they needed to be fitted, marked then might as well weld them have over with it, just in case something stupid tried to happen that may pull them apart resulting in NO steering at all....that kind of thing....

I will say this though, everyone knows how hot a header pipe can get, especially just rusty steel like these are....but for some silly reason that steering linkage does not seem to mind, I was very paranoid about grease and seals, and bearings, and rust, and anythig else, but no troubles so far....

IF anybody has any questions or can't read my writing (why would anyone not be able to do that??..:-)))......feel free to email me I can explain maybe...

GENE