Butch got me a really nice gently used one for my 47 very nice part. I'll try to keep that in mind. One thing I'm exploring is rack and pinion. I've used Triumph Spitfire racks on racing Dune Buggies. They have a short housing and locate easily, but I might run into trouble with the geometry as it applies to a straight axle. Gotta look into flipping the spindles side to side and see what it'd be like. If I have to fool with swapping tie rod ends I may as well do the change for perfect steering and get rid of the Mickey Mouse box. I'll never understand why it took American manufactures so long to "invent" R&P steering..........p
And, by the way. Does anyone have pricing or the phone number or address of Rare Parts?Yep ,you guessed correct-R&P on a straight axle gives problems--we call it Bump steer. HOWEVER--I'm seeing more people using only half of the rack and making it cross steer to the far side.Something to think about as that stops the bump steer.
As you probably have gleaned from my posts, I drive my cars. Most every day. The Crosleys have become the most pleasing to me, and pleasant to folks who find them in a parking lot or pass me on the road. It's a rare occasion that people don't wait for me to return to the parking lot from shopping or hang out of windows on the road waving with a huge smile in their faces. Even slowing traffic to stay beside for, "What is it" and "Who made it" info.
Makes my heart buzz. Or, at least it does something it hasn't done lately. Making folks happy has to be the most rewarding thing we can do in this life. But I want the cars to be safe and sound. While I come from the age when "pitching the wheel", a term that is best described a method of using the up play in steering boxes and linkages, was considered the norm as a kid, people who now learn to drive with modern automobiles are deprived of that experience. Sad. Skills lost.But lives saved.
Peter, my name sake grandson who is now 13, has put in for Mr. Truk. He's in love with it. Has pictures of him in it. It'll be handed down when I'm dead and it'll be the safest I can make it.That puts a real challenge on me. If I felt I might find parts to achieve the steering precision with the original Crosley parts, as I experianced them 50 + years ago, I'd go that way. Ain't been obvious to me that I can, so far.
Any help for Peter and me would be most appreciated...............p&p
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