Transit Power Steering Rack

[vintageholden]

wow,your van sits low..

[Rogue Trooper]

Something I forgot to mention when posting last night is that the reason the rack was extended behind the steering arm pivot point unlike George's was that the theory goes, if the pivot point sits on a line drawn between the top and bottom wishbone mounts this should reduce the possibility of any bump steer. If you take a look at the photo (sorry about the hand thing again Dano) you'll see that that is where mine now sits.

wow,your van sits low..

Yeah it's cool eh! We reset the springs before it came home. I'm an absolute weapon at removing and replacing springs now. Nice new shocks too. The springs have been lowered by 20mm. When the engine was moved back the front sat up a lot higher so resetting the springs has fixed that but it's probably now a little lower than normal. There is just a touch of negative camber on the front wheels which is great and the 15" wheels fill the wheel arches really nicely.

[KGG86]

so that wasnt with the transit power steering all these photos in the end??

[Rogue Trooper]

Yes it was.

[Sundownernz]

Hey Rogue,

That's looking pretty good mate. Well done. Will be great to see it on the road.

I was trolling through some old posts the other day and noticed in another topic on power steering about bump steer and you were comparing two different setups, mine and another. As stated it looks like the pivot point on my rack sits outside this imaginary line between the top and bottom wishbones and the other one inside the line. You asked about whether either of us suffered from bump steer. I must have done about 30K plus kms now with the Porsche rack and have had no bump steer issues at all. From my experience I would have to say that having the pivot point just outside the line is not an issue.

Keep up the great work and more pics please.

Cheers,
Garry.

[azzahq]

Bedfordcrazy. I fitted transit rack like you described, thanks for that dead easy, only not sure of rack to steering column setup. What did you do (use) To marry the two together.

[Bedfordcrazy]

Hi Azzahq, it was so simple, because the angles were so close, [ we had a custom column, not beddy ] we put a union on the end of the column,  union on the rack, and cut a piece of the splined rod to length and slotted it into the unions, and rogues your uncle we turned the steering wheel and it all worked like a bought one.  I will see if i can get a pic for you and post it, the spline bit we cut was only about 2inches long.

george.

[tiwaz_nz]

Hey Rogue

have you got plans or a temp plate for your mounting bracket ?
thought i mite do this mod while im doing the disk brake swap
any help would be great

[Rogue Trooper]

No sorry, none of the above however I do have to pull it out at some stage to get it powdercoated so I could ask and see what it would cost to make another one up.

Let me know. Ta.

[Rogue Trooper]

Hmmmm, thinking about it you might want to confirm that it will fit first too depending on where your engine sits. Mine is midmounted so my bracket was made up without that as a consideration in the fitting. Also my van is a later model that yours so there might be a gotcha there as well.