Steering rack mount

[Dan Case]

Roger,
I’ll see if I have a picture that shows what you ask. In the mean time, on an original car, the housing can't sit directly on the brackets welded to the front of the front road spring tower because of the details of the pinion housing. To get the pinion housing above and clear there are round section plain carbon steel distance pieces between the brackets and rack on both sides. I would imagine that the steering mechanism location was decided, distance pieces length decided, and then chassis mount location picked last.

After our last discussion on the thermal switch housing subject, I hand held in position a switch housing over the rack and pinion assembly over the pinion side to simulate your right hand drive application. It appears that if the boss had not been cut off by SAI that the housing could be bolted in as AC Cars did for chassis shipping and work fine for the inlet (radiator side). I don’t have the radiator back in yet so I couldn’t verify hose bib alignments. The person that had his own new castings made including the chassis mounting boss has been seriously ill a lot lately so I have not asked him if he has any more of them.
Dan