Steering question

[adam f]

Its a pretty specialized question.

What do I do?

I'm chopping up the stock frame to do a Z front and rear on my 52 F1.

As you know, the steering column and box on the F1 is one piece.

I was wondering if anyone has Z'ed the stock frame and if so what did they do for steering? I'm keeping the stock parralel leaf setup.

Toyota box? Saginaw? Some sort of car donor? Rack and pinion?

Looking for CHEAP. Junkyard donor.

 

[jawman]

dont know anything, but just just relocate the box and shorten or lengthen the column.

 

[Willowbilly3]

One problem you have when you change the angle of the steering column, you also change the angle of the pitman arm. Then you have to heat and bend the pitman arm.

 

[jawman]

so that pitman arm only goes on one way?

 

[EnglishBob]

Cut the steering shaft and machine or grind a double 'D' into it,use a steering joint.Would need to get a couple of bearings for inside the column but shouldn't be that hard.
This keeps the original box in it's original location so shouldn't need any other modifications.

 

[sneakysnake]

Can cut the shaft like EnglishBob said ,and could also swap for a newer column and use a steering joint.

 

[adam f]

Good idea bob, thanks! I work at a wrecking yard so I can easily find some sort of donor. I diddnt want to change the box location and have a screwey steering angle. Adding a ujoint would fix the column location problem.