Steers TOO easy? - Page 2

tx65coupe · 10-22-2009, 05:22 AM

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Originally Posted by blue66mustang

Hey Kalli..... Nice color !

II would check the alignment. The power steering valve could be out of adjustment but is mainly just to center the feed to the ram. It doesn’t control overall effort or pressure. If it steers hard to one side and super easy to the other that indicates that the valve is out of adjustment.

You have a nice color too. LOL...

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tx65coupe · 10-22-2009, 05:26 AM

If you have recently had the aligment done its hard to say whats wrong. You say it was aligned to shelby specs. I take it you have the Shelby drop. Do you have Granada spindles/brakes or any other unique/different front suspension components?

sixt5 · 10-22-2009, 06:16 AM

factory spindles with cobra brakes. lowering springs (then another half coil cut). everything under the body is new (tie rods, bushings,ect)

tx65coupe · 10-22-2009, 07:41 AM

I had an 89 Mustang LX that you could steer with your pinky, but it did not handle bad. I'm not so sure that the 2 things are related.

67mustang302 · 10-22-2009, 03:20 PM

What's the caster? If the caster is 0 or negative the car will have easy steering effort but wander all over the place and get worse the faster you go, and it may get shimmying in the front end at high speed.

msmith · 10-22-2009, 03:31 PM

Smaller steering wheel will help, too.

chockostang · 10-22-2009, 05:30 PM

Sixt5,

Can I assume you took a Manual steering car, and added Power Steering without changing the Steering Box??

If So, then you added the Advantage/Disavantage of the Gear in the Box to your Steering.

The Steering Boxes on these early Mustangs used a 4 Turn Box for Power Steering, and a 5 Turn on the Manual Cars.

Turn equates into Gear Ratio, the Ablility to use leverage.

A 4 Turn Box has less leverage, a 5 turn has more.

The 4 Turns were used on the PS Cars as the Leverage was not needed with the Hydraulics to push, pull on the steering link to achieve turning.

5 turn boxes were used to achieve turning, simply because the extra gear was necessary, unless you were a upper body builder.

So, to get to my point, you may have a 5 turn box, using with Power Steering (As we call it SUPER Power Steering), this will give you steering you can use your little finger to turn the car.

Dan

www.chockostangclassicmustang.com