Originally Posted by dvw
Originally Posted by cudaman1969
Originally Posted by dvw
If you convert to front steer you can't use the the stock steering arms/ball joints. The Ackerman will be backwards causing toe in on turns, not good. So again your back to swapping everything. Not much of a gain. Sure a little extra header clearance would make taking it apart easier. You loose a little weight with the rack. But not enough benefit to come even close to covering the cost. You could almost buy an aluminum block for the cost of the conversion.
Doug

I did one in a 68 Dart 42 years ago (reversed the spindles, ran the rack thru the x member) had no problem with steering. There’s a secret to it.


And you secret is?
Doug

Simple, keep the tie rods from rack straight as possible out to lower ball joint arms. When one moves the rack way out front and tie rods are angled back the problems begin. Same as factory did it, in fact they’re angled forward a little. Factories spent millions figuring this out. It wasn’t perfect but we never had a problem with the outside tire flopping in on a turn.

Last edited by cudaman1969; 02/05/23 10:40 AM.