Gents;Your ideas please.My wife has a '46 Chevy Aero-Sedan with the stone stock front end(all new NOS parts).The car has a 350 with a 350 Turbo transmission. The front tyres are 205 x 15's. She finds the steering very heavy and I was wondering if I can up grade the steering box with a more modern unit that will reduce the steering effort.It's a real pain to parallel park. I've also considered installing a Mustang 11 kit from C.E.,but it's a lot of bucks to fork out.The good thing is that this kit is a bolt in much like the original cross member. Thanks for your input.
sure someone here has done upgrade for Chevy like yours. search Chevys of the 40's, etc for mounting plate/pitman arm. likely best to use a something like a GM 525 manual box. I had a '47 Ford that I went with a Vega box on-was not a simple bolt on even with right parts. It made a good difference, but not major. Adapting some type of rack or power steering only things to make big difference. Must II or the like a good way to go, but lots to do and as long as eng/trans out might end up going thru them, then a steering column upgrade, etc.
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