Wich columd do i need for my car...ive used a volvo as a donor and that means that i need a column who is attached in front of the wheel centrum...(not behind...)
With the one i got now (escort LX -85)that menas that if i turn the sreeringwheel right, the car will turn left
I could turn the column uppsidedown but then i will end up steering the car from the passenger side...like you do in GB

Are you building a clown car?

are'nt we all?

Aaah - I see. All you escort experts out there - am I right in thinking an 85 escort would be a MK3 (at the earliest)? In which case your steering rack does indeed go the wrong way. You need a MKII (up to 1980 I think) escort rack (well that's what we use in our escort based cars) or anything nice and narrow that belongs in front of the wheel centre-line.

Failing that I suppose a right-hand-drive rearwards mounted rack would do the trick if you turned it up-side-down, but you probably dont get many RHD steering racks knocking about over there.

Hang on a second guys - a thought: Why don't we all use LHD mini racks turned up-side down? If we could find them (probably would have to buy a quickrack version from a dealer) wouldn't they surely be even narrower than MKII escort racks and help us with bump steer problems? Hmmmmm worth looking into methinks - or not. What do you reckon?

Liam

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Why don't we all use LHD mini racks turned up-side down?......help us with bump steer problems?

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Narrowest isn't necessarily best

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Liam: If you like, i could ship them over....

We (in sweden) had a stupid law that came i last summer about old cars and scrapies, that resulted in "all" cars from -85 an eariler ended up in small kubes of steel...

Anyway i found a sierra one that i think will work..itīs a PS but i donīt think it will be any problem to fix that..

[Edited on 27/1/03 by kamikaze]