Cheap manual steering???

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Rob89lx

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Anyone know of a cheap way to get manual steering or of a rack that will work without buying an expensive aftermarket one??

 

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the old fairmont an futura's maybe an early stang.

 

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79-82 mustang manual rack

 

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PUNISHER RACING said:

79-82 mustang manual rack

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Is it a plug and play or are there modifications warranted?

 

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I beleive you need an adapter from flaming river to run it. It costs $75 or so

 

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You need an adaptor for the steering shaft.

 

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sweet thanks for the info

 

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or get the steering shaft from the same 79-82 manual steering mustang with the rag joint, if you want a nice shaft with two universal joints and no rag then go with flaming river

 

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I looked into this, my friend at advance looked up and they showed a manual rack for a 88 model, I assume this would also need a new shaft as well on a 86 4 cylinder that had power steering?

 

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I have a double u joint flamming river shaft on my car. What if you took a power rack and capped off the lines? peace



john

 

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SMOKEDYA said:

I have a double u joint flamming river shaft on my car. What if you took a power rack and capped off the lines? peace



john

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That's the cheap-o ghetto way, and it doesn't work as well as using an actual manual rack because it's a LOT harder to turn at low speeds than a true manual. I would only recommend going this route if your power steering pump has just completely puked its guts and you're biding your time until you can afford to get a manual rack and shaft to replace your power rack.

EDIT: Also bear in mind that you'll have to do some belt re-routing and get a shorter belt. If you're keeping your A/C, or you have an idler pulley in place of the A/C compressor, it's not as tricky to reroute, but if you have no A/C and no P/S pump, then ... good luck.

 

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Power racks when the pump goes south are a pain at low speeds