Okay, I was just reading Brian68GT's thread about vague feel in the steering of his car. I have just finished rebuilding the front suspension on my '69 Mach and currently have the entire power steering system out for rebuild.
Before I sink a ton of money replacing all of the PS components (at least several hundred dollars by my estimates), what is a cost effective way to convert to manual steering, while still maintaining good manueverability and feel ? What have some of you guys done on your cars ? I don't want to have to stiff arm this car around parking lots, and my wife may drive it occasionally!
Before I sink a ton of money replacing all of the PS components (at least several hundred dollars by my estimates), what is a cost effective way to convert to manual steering, while still maintaining good manueverability and feel ? What have some of you guys done on your cars ? I don't want to have to stiff arm this car around parking lots, and my wife may drive it occasionally!
, so I swapped in a manual steering and a new steering box. You have to get a new centerlink (I think I paid about $110, maybe $120 for it) and the steering box was like $400-$450. I figured I was working with a 34 year old steering box at the time and if the new unit gets another 34 years, I'll be in the old folks home. The cost of the P/S parts I would have had to replace would have been about $100-$150 more than I spent, plus no worry of leaks. Drives really well and not hard to steer at all (not as easy as the P/S, but the P/S was a p.o.s). I am getting ready to fight the battle with the 90 vert and its rack.....Joy 
