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SMOOTH STEERER
Putting power steering in your mid-sixties or early Ford Falcon, with a V8 can be quite a job – though worth the effort. Everyone likes an engine that makes power and to do that, you put extractors on it. Of course, they take up a lot of room, leaving you short of space for a power-steering conversion.
So you’d come across people using XE/XF steering boxes – which is fine, but then you look more closely and they’ve taken to the extractors with a hammer to get the clearances they want.
We had a customer come in with a Mustang that was nearly undriveable, because of the wide wheels and lack of power steering. So we suggested some alternatives and he gave us the go-ahead.
After a bit of hunting around, I found an electric power-steering column out of the United States. We spend a lot of time talking to this company called CJ Pony Parts, because everything
