Technical Scored Hudson Steering box- now what.

Stumbled on this 37-39 Hudson box today, and planning to use it in a deuce build. Thinking I will be sending to NealInCa for his conversion. I'm guessing some folks on here have done the same, so wanted to see how you guys liked the performance of the Hudson box.

Hendee

 

Heard good words about his work on those.

 

Haven't used my NealinCa Hudson box yet but it sure is a fine piece of work.

 

Everything I've seen of Neal's posted online is top notch so I expect it works well. Seems like a great way to go to stay traditional and upgrade a bit at the same time. I was lucky in finding the core box pretty reasonable I think, so now I just need to ship it out to Neal.

 

do you have the steering shaft and worm gear?
tom

 

Worm yes, shaft no. Just a foot long chunk of it.

 

I modified an F100 box like Neal does the Hudson boxes. It steers like a 60 Ford F100. Actually better with the lower weight and better tires.

 

I've heard the F100 box work as well. I like the idea of the Hudson box having a better ratio than the stock '32 box and the roller on the shaft making it light for steering. Plan for the deuce is a car that I can share with my Dad so making it work for us both is really important. Very cool to still keep the original column and wheel/light switch. I have all that stuff that came out of his '32-5w in the 60's and we can now put it back to good use.