mjalaly wrote:
Can any one point me in the direction of a rear steer quick steering rack that is 22"-24"?? I am not finding too many options.
I needed a rack with the same requirements as you. I found online that a '95-'97 Geo Metro rack is rear steer and about 23.5" between pivots. I just go mine yesterday and haven't taken the boots off to get an accurate measurement yet. If I remember correctly, it has about 5in travel but can't remember the numbers of turns it took to get there. I'll post more details later after I measure it.
UPDATE: The Metro rack is 3.7 turns lock to lock with 5.5in of travel.
FYI
I found this list of steering racks over on a Datsun forum that helped me.
http://datsun1200.com/modules/mediawiki/index.php?title=Rack_and_Pinion_Steeringmjalaly wrote:
Any one know of how I can roll the tubes with out having it twist?! I think this tube is pretty much shot.
Well, in short, it's not easy. I ran into the same issue rolling my tubes. I welded on cross tubes across the end and had a person on each end try and hold them while running it through the dies (you can see this in my build log about 3/4 the way down on page 1). I also tried to make sure the 3 dies were all in plane, especially the top die to the two bottom ones. If they are off, it will induce twist. I think I shimmed the die left to right on the shafts to help. But in the end, I still had some slight twist in them but not enough to worry about.
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