Joined: Sat Jun 23 2007, 06:05PM
Location: Windsor, Ontario
Posts: 85
Really suprised to hear of your troubles with Steer & Gear 65Coronet. The level 2 box I got from them last year has been great. Still, going with Firm Feel is not a bad thing. If their boxes are comparable to the BIG torsion bars they made for me then you definitely can't go wrong with them. !thumb
Joined: Fri Dec 22 2006, 08:41PM
Location: Warrenton, Virginia
Posts: 1366
By all means rebuild your old one if possible ezrstl. Please let us know how it turns out though...
My steering boxes were "slop boxes" to be sure....but I kept believing better was possible. AND it IS possible!
Now, the last Mopar I owned before my current 67 300 was a 68 Fury III (had it from '82 till '89). One of the things I remembered about that car was that it would track straight and true down the hiway with a minimum of steering corrections or input by the driver. I could NOT specifically recall if how much, if any, play was in the steering.
OK, since I've gotten the Firm Feel box installed, the 300 steers the way I recall the Fury steering......the memory is coming back and I was correct....the 300 now tracks straight and true down the hiway with hardly any steering corrections needed on my part.
The Stage 2 firmness is requires considerably more effort to turn than the stock box did. In fact it is "firmer" than any other power steering car I've ever driven. But, as NFURY8 stated, that's the only difference...no basic difference in road feel or change in the ratio. The firm steering is just fine by me thought....I DON"T intend to parallel park this car EVER...and that pretty much the only reason I can see for having the "pinky low" steering effort these cars originally came with.