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All, my '77 is back in the garage tonight after performing a power steering conversion using a '78 steering gear and pump. Although I hired a welder for the fabrication, I also learned that the process is not necessarily as some others show on YouTube (e.g. we didn't cut a box shape into the frame, etc.) and that there is a little misinformation on the Interwebs (e.g. the location of the lines for bleeding, etc.).
If anyone is interested, I will post some photos and comment how we completed the project - and if this subject has already been covered ad-nauseum, then I'll skip posting more about this.
p.s. Holy crap, if any of you are on the fence, this is a MUST DO. I can turn my 3/4 ton truck sitting on 35" x 12.5" mud tires with one finger, if I drove like an idiot only using one finger
GLAD to pay it forward. Although sometimes hard to find / hidden under obscure titles, I'm loving this community and your help. Here are four good photos detailing my conversion; send any questions that you have. Here is a top photo of the '78/9 Ford gear box to show that the lines plug in to the top of the box, which runs contradictory to the information from the Intewebs. That is a marine grade fuel filter above the box (came with the truck).
Here is a shot from the wheel well. A 3/8" plate was welded to the top of the frame and some minor body trimming was performed.
We took a boneyard '78 drag link to a machinist to have it lengthened slightly. In stock form, we couldn't get a 90-degree turn in both directions. We also used a stock '78 pitman arm.
Lastly, we finished the installation with a set of Skyjacker dual-steering stabilizers, available on Amazon for $135.
Power Steering Conversion Update
