[DeTomaso] Power steering conversion.
Roger
coatesr8 at aol.com
Thu Aug 23 18:09:56 EDT 2012
I have been interested in this for some tome now, in fact I spoke to Kjetil about it on Charlie's tour
Anyone any idea on costs please?
Sent from Roger's iPhone
On 23 Aug 2012, at 22:43, "David Nunn" <dnunn at telus.net> wrote:
> Dennis,
>
> You ship them the upper portion of your steering column and they ship it
> back to you with the power steering motor and control unit installed. The
> power steering unit is quite compact and is installed behind the cowling, so
> the turn signal lever and steering lock/ignition are unaffected. The middle
> section of the Pantera's steering column (part # 03017A) is made of two
> pieces; an upper male section and a lower female section. EZ Electric
> supplies a new upper male section that connects to the electric power
> steering motor. The sheet metal that needs to be removed is isolated to the
> bracket that the steering column bolts to. A few minutes with a cut-off
> wheel should do it and the material removal doesn't really weaken the
> steering column mounting. It's designed to be "do able" without removing the
> dashboard but it would sure be a lot easier with the dash removed. You also
> need to mount the VSS (vehicle speed sensor) between the angle drive on your
> ZF and the speedo cable, run wires from the VSS to the control unit and
> power/ground to the power steering motor.
>
> Dave
>
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