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    johnboy is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter View Post
    Nice progress!!!

    Now, was Lynda able to teach you how to do that yourself?
    Well Lynda's not here today, but she did send me a page full of instructions last night as to what I should do, so I had a go.
    Here's the result:

    Hopefully it's a shot of the front of the bus with the original 454 in it, showing the two steering boxes and the flat-head Ford engine mounts I dug out as body mounts for the front clip to sit on.
    (Hopefully!)




    Whew!
    (Big sigh of relief!)
    That took me about two hours and left me all shaky!
    The idea behind retaining the original steering box was Willie Roach's, two boxes interconnected increases the amount of oil flow at any one time; so if you're reversing at an idle there's still plenty of flow and you've got fingertip steering.

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    Last edited by johnboy; 07-08-2012 at 08:15 PM.
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    '47 Ford sedan. 350 -- 350, Jaguar irs + ifs.
    '49 Morris Minor. Datsun 1500cc, 5sp manual, Marina front axle, Nissan rear axle.
    '51 Ford school bus. Chev 400 ci Vortec 5 sp manual + Gearvendors 2sp, 2000 Chev lwb dually chassis and axles.
    '64 A.C. Cobra replica. Ford 429, C6 auto, Torana ifs, Jaguar irs.

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