No Limit Straight Axle Rack And Pinion

I ve seen plenty of kits that will convert a front straight axle car truck into rack and pinion steering but of course they don t have one for my truck since nobody ever makes anything for internationals.

No limit straight axle rack and pinion. Took a couple of tries to get the geometry right. So i have a 68 international and the gear box on it is junk. The obvious way to use a rack pinion with a solid axle would seem to me to set up the front end as for cross steering with a panhard bar only reversed left to right. Power rack pinion tie rod ends mount kit steering a arms colapsable steering shaft with boot and all necessary hardware.

Install an idler arm on the passenger side. Made many a high speed run to different shows with it. No limit engineering 1001 epco dr dandridge tn 37725 tech help line. Features no limit fabricated lower control arms spc no limit spec fully adjustable upper control arms coleman no limit short snout spindle assembly no limit billet hub and rotor adapter coleman sweet servo drive power rack and pinion speedway engineering splined sway bar.

Good joints in the rod. Well we already know a 78 thunderbird rack will work for this truck has one and it has the exact same wheel width as the regular draglink i first got the idea when i saw the powerrack from a sundance laying on the shop floor had the worker measure it for me i couldn t believe it looked as the exact length of our existing drag link it came out to 48 1 2 with no tierod ends if your not into. Installing the rack on the axle was pretty easy. The rack bolts onto the axle it appears to be a rear steer configuration.

Used a gm slider and mounted the rack to the back of the axle to ford spindles. New from no limit power steering kit for the straight axle kits. Some pics of the no limit straight axle rack and pinion steering kit as promised. The guy had a chain drive giving him 2 1 steering ratio down to the same level as the upper driver side link then a rod going to the rack on the axle.

After looking at the kit online it is an interesting setup. Both the steering cross link and the passenger side tie rod off the rack pinion attach to this. Perfectly designed to give you the best. The steering is very precise with no free play as one would expect i suppose from rack and pinion.

Finally a rack and pinion power steering system for your classic truck. A i mentioned already my first driving impression of this kit was very good. Ran the car for seven years that way not a bit of trouble and handled great and no bump steer either.