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early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 12:25:51 AM

whoafrdofdapolce

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hey im planing on doing a rack and pinion convershion and have looked into it and people say use a gm "j car" or a ford taurus. obvisly i would rather use a ford rack so douse anyone have any advice on what year i need? or has anyone done this convershion and has any advice at all??

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 1:36:41 AM

Scott H.

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Yeah,

Ford Taurus, and J car doesn't have enough rack movement.
I've got a modified J car rack in my car. It's a kit produced by Randall's Rack. Great guy, quality piece, decent price. Without finding the perfect rack and building the whole thing yourself, (IMO) this is about as good as it gets.

I do think there is a rack & pinion out there, I just haven't made time to go find it. But as popular as this swap is becoming I may make the time. Because someone is going to make some good money with the right rack packaged correctly.

Good luck,

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 9:53:30 AM

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I haven't heard of anyone going to a junkyard and finding a rack that just bolts up to a 60's mustang.

as far as i know you need a custom cradle to bolt it to .

I have a total control products on mine. it's integral to it's mounting bar.

someday, i'll have it on the road and i can give some feedback on how it does

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 11:20:21 AM

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Go get a pinto or a late 70s mustang rack and pinion from a mustang II, i herad theyre very good and easily modify-able. or you can look up Chris Altons Chassis Works, they have alot of suspension set ups and i actually use thier rearend 4 link system, theyre very nice people and they helped me through alot. heres the site http://www.cachassisworks.com/Home.html

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 1:32:18 PM

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I have a Tarus rack and Pinion on my '67 and I love it. It has a good feel. It's power but not "floaty" like a Cadillac. They guy who did the work made a fabricated bracket to make it work. Not sure what year the part is however.

see a photo here (bottom of the page)

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 2:54:12 PM

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someone should be making the brackets for the taurus swap.......way to make some money there....

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 4:09:42 PM

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hey could you try to find out what year Tarus the rack was off? i think your sopousta use the late 80s racks but dont want to do the project with the rong rack. if i had alot of money id buy the setup but i dont plus i like to fabracate. il make it a school prodject haha.

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 4:11:54 PM

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o and could you send some more picturs of the rack form difrent angles haha that would help alot thanks!!!

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 4:32:27 PM

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quote:

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hey could you try to find out what year Tarus the rack was off?

It's a 1988 Tarus. You can use and Explorer rack and pinion, too.

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 4:50:13 PM

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o sweet explorer of the same year? and yea if you ever get a chance to get some pictures of the setup of the rack maby from the frount that would be awosem. and thanks for your help!

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 4:57:40 PM

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A taurus is a junkyard queen. Go look! when i went, they had like 12 of them. I will start yanking rack and pinions for a small price.

My junkyard sells rack and pinions for 36.95

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 5:03:40 PM

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hey coop67 how much did that shop chardge you for the convershion? i saw you livd in la i live in orange county so if the shop is local maby il just have them do it.

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 5:32:55 PM

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yeah seriously, if its less thank $1500 bucks and works just the same i dont see why not?

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 6:52:14 PM

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For those not wanting power steering, a PS gear box, manual center link and roller idler arm makes quite an improvement over the stock manual setup.
I would put it up against any manual rack & pinion. Now a power rack & pinon properly designed is a different story, but also carries a hefty price tag that my setup does not :)

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/27/2006 10:38:56 PM

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Manual steering is awesome!

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 7/28/2006 3:55:32 AM

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yeah...once your going 10 mph and not trying to parallel park on a hill in san francisco lol.....those things are almost straight up and down like the face of a cliff (incase u have never been there)

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 10/11/2006 11:24:07 AM

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so i see the r&p assembly from 1988 taurus but what or how hard would it be to make that bracket

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 10/11/2006 2:40:05 PM

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i havent done it yet but im planning to soon. i found this site that has some good info http://home.comcast.net/~dciab/rack.html
it look easy, im hopeing to do it within the next month.

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 10/11/2006 4:25:09 PM

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I'm using a manual center link on what used to be an original power system works pretty good.

If I were to do a rack and pinion conversion I'd probably keep it manual steering, but what I really want is a front end without the shock towers. Can this be done with all Mustang II stuff?

Sorry for the thread hijack...

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RE: early mustang rack and pinion - 10/11/2006 5:42:24 PM

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quote:

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I'm using a manual center link on what used to be an original power system works pretty good.

If I were to do a rack and pinion conversion I'd probably keep it manual steering, but what I really want is a front end without the shock towers. Can this be done with all Mustang II stuff?

Sorry for the thread hijack...

Justin

Yeah, it has been done many times, but the Mustang II front ends are lame. I built a kit car one time, and used the rack and pinion from a 78 Mustang and it worked just fine for that application. Now, as far as powersteering, I have powersteering. It's called powersteering by Armstrong.

I don't think we need powersteering on our 65-66's, but you guys with the big boats do I suppose.

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