Center Take Off Rack And Pinion

A center take off rack and pinion steering apparatus includes a cylindrical rack housing having an elongate hole extending in a longitudinal direction a mounting bracket for mounting ends of a.

Center take off rack and pinion.

This is a rear steer center take off style rack and pinion with a ball center bar that exactly matches the center link of the stock suspension for the 60 64 fords. The cavalier rack is a center take off grand am sunbird etc used successfully on many conversions see the wiki swapping to rack and pinion steeriing cavalier rack install. Our patented line of high performance center take off rack and pinions enables correct geometry and a level of positive direct steering that is not possible with adapted oem units. The next problem is that the stock tie rods off the center takeoff rack are too long.

I quickly realized that the center link would pull away from the rack as it rotates around the idler arms radius. It would look like this but the tie rods would connect to two idler arms. The solution is a short extension bar with some 10 11 tie rods. The solution is to use the center takeoff with cententral pivot points to connect the idler arms to the rack.

We are just using the center take off rack and pinion to create something similar to the unisteer. Both manual and power versions feature quick ratio straightcut gears requiring only three turns lock to lock standard oem 4 5 8 turns performance oem 3 3 4 turns.