I've got a 76 with Ford's "power ram assist" steering. The proportioning valve for this sits in line with the drivers side frame. Right now it sits at a bit of an angle with 4" of lift. I'm going to make some new spring mounts for the front and this problem will then bit me in the butt. Anyone dealt with this before? I don't really want to do a full steering conversion and was thinking along the lines of a new longer pitman arm to accomidate for the extra lift. I want to use this hydro assist steering because I'm probably going to be running 40's on it after the new hangars are built. Any suggestions? anything at all about this? ideas for possibly a cheap power steering conversion?

anyone?

yeah, either a droped pitman arm or a raised arm at the knuckle. no doubt a custom arm. don't go changing the radius of the pitman arm as that will mess with the lock-to-lock of the box which is pretty closely timed to the movement allowed by the steering knuckles.

Eric

ummm drop pitman won't work, have to do an extended lenght or radius. the pitman on the steering is situated vertically and rotates front to back (eg clockwis and counterclockwise) similar to a heavy 2.5ton trucks steering.

My bad, TOTAL brain fade. I have the exact same steering(minus the assist) on my '73. I've been fixated on the '78 F-250 power steering box swap I'm planning on mine.

Sorry, not much help. only other thing is revers 'dropped' arm for the knuckle end. have it extend upwards but I hope with the assist ram the load on the knuckle won't be too harsh.

Eric