Hi Mike, how are you?

I am also using a Cavalier power rack on my '56 with a stock Eaton PS pump and the steering was also very light. If I had it to do again though, I would go with this new Borgeson PS pump because I had to shim the rack downward and the motor upward (1/4" aluminum plates on the motor mounts) so that the oil pump wouldn't rest on the dust boot of the power rack. Did you have to make any mods like that? To compound my problem, I'm using 2&1/2" dropped Granada spindles so now I have only about 4" of clearance from the ground to the bolts on the tie rod center bracket. I've got to be really careful of big bumps and deep holes and there are lots of them up here in Maine.

Rono.

  Ron Lane,  Meridian, ID

FWIW, I've had a Saginaw pump running a cavalier rack on the car for several years, and the steering's been very light. I just put a Height's valve in, and while I haven't driven the car on the road, it cut the boost back a lot just moving it around (the exhaust is off it). I was told that the rack's used a lower pressure pump, but have no way of verifying that.



From Speedway http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Adjustable-Power-Steering-Valve,14895.html


miker
55 bird, 32 cabrio F code
Kent, WA
Tucson, AZ

Thanks to jeffb2 for finding out Borgeson's has came out with some new products, the 2nd and 3rd items down on this link

show a new power steering pump and bracket for y-blocks and also a bolt on power steering box for 52-64 fords..

http://webrodder.com/index.php?page=listProducts&CID=18&pageNum=0