Thread: Brain Picking! Please help!

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well my chevy had a 327 in it with all stock front end it was a not that geat at all the gm bell crank steering is bad with bigger tires at a dead stop it was very hard to turn to park and it did not stop the best thing was the clip and that was over 20 years a go the car handles geat and stops and i can turn with one hand so with the clip you are fixing the brakes steering and handling and up dating to parts you can get any where

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

well my chevy had a 327 in it with all stock front end it was a not that geat at all the gm bell crank steering is bad with bigger tires at a dead stop it was very hard to turn to park and it did not stop the best thing was the clip and that was over 20 years a go the car handles geat and stops and i can turn with one hand so with the clip you are fixing the brakes steering and handling and up dating to parts you can get any where

that's true. I was just giving a cheaper option, but if u do assess the strong arm steering these cars have at a dead stop, and the brakes and handeling aspect, than a clip is the option to go for. there are modifications to the steering that can loosen up the steering, other than proper ajustment, 1 is to get power steering, ither a '53-4 box, pump and resivore or, a '85-90 2wd astrovan power steering box can be reversed and bolted in place and work with the stock stuff, and use a standard saganaw pump, brakes can be converted to discs using GM metric stuff and machining spindals a little. only thing that this might not cover is the 2 lane turns because they have partly to do with the turning radius and where the load of the springs is on. I researched on upgrades for mine but for now, it stops and handles ok for me.

Pat you said you used a clip years back? What did you use? And what mods did you have to do?