Ran across an ad on cl for an old race car. Looking at the pictures that were posted and it looks like a rear end housing was used as a column. Was this common or are my eys deceiving me?
I don't know about everywhere, but it was pretty common here in N. Tex. Used to see it a lot in garage built dirt cars. Tough as hell, and a pretty good steering advantage.
nevermind, I was saying pic #1 was too small edit, what's the rear end in the car. Looks like big wide five racecar rear, I bet.
Just like any other steering box, with some kind of pitman arm and a drag link. Most likely homeade also.
Brilliant Redneck Engineering, lock the spiders for normal steering or lock the "dead axle only" for quick ratio steering!! I vote this for tech week