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Yes someone has done it but for the life of me I cant remember who / where I read it...it may well have been a link on a thread on here..... in fact it was deffinately on here

memory serves they used the steering components from a Rascal...a lot of work involved, not one for the feint hearted..
 
Its not actually to bad to do, just a tad time consuming and can be expensive. A friend of mine had power steering on his late bay, it even had a variable adjuster so that you could tighten or loosen the steering, depending where or what you were doing. Its basically just a motor driven steering column.

The unit just sat below the indicator stalk where the shaft mounts to the dash, nice little unit. 8)
 
easy said:
Its not actually to bad to do, just a tad time consuming and can be expensive. A friend of mine had power steering on his late bay, it even had a variable adjuster so that you could tighten or loosen the steering, depending where or what you were doing. Its basically just a motor driven steering column.

The unit just sat below the indicator stalk where the shaft mounts to the dash, nice little unit. 8)
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It sounds like what Im after, any pics or more details on what unit to use, is it from a rascal as mentioned, ? much appreciated.
 
The other way to do it is to fit the rack & pinion that creative do, that combined with a weedeater beam would be sick! hang on a min, that gives me an idea...................... :wink:
 
^ thats me doing the EPS / rack conversion in those links. i dont come on here much but if i can help with any questions ask away. its actually very easy to do if you can weld....but bear in mind that you really need a good condition slack free steering system for it not to feel really vague! This is a problem with early bay steering boxes.

I have the EPS linked to the rascal rack and also a weedeater beam...altho i have made my own air suspension set up properly mounted to the chassis.
 
Nice one Rich - didn't notice it was you :oops:

Can you tell us a bit more about the ride quality etc, have you had any problems with the setup?

Cue lots of questions... :lol:

;)
 
ahem...i should say that my vans all work in progress :oops: - whilst i have finished certain elements of it (like steering, suspension, brakes etc) i havent actually driven it yet - any of you that have seen my van will know its modified beyond the norm - hence it taking me a while.....

i am currently trying to work out if i can get my steering to be properly speed related as i have ABS rings on my porsche hubs.

i do actualy own a website i keep meaning to start to put all my mods on....but i dont have enough time!
 
richbaker78 said:
^ thats me doing the EPS / rack conversion in those links. i dont come on here much but if i can help with any questions ask away. its actually very easy to do if you can weld....but bear in mind that you really need a good condition slack free steering system for it not to feel really vague! This is a problem with early bay steering boxes.

I have the EPS linked to the rascal rack and also a weedeater beam...altho i have made my own air suspension set up properly mounted to the chassis.
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Hi rich, thanks for the advice, Ive just started to get some parts together. Im ok at welding and machining its the electrics that I have trouble with, so Ill be back to you at a later date for some advise, if thats ok, cheers.
 
electrics the easiest bit - buy a controler on ebay....and wire it in as per instructions - there are lots of different ones from about £40 upwards.

YOu may want to think about which indicator stalks you use...corsa ones are apparently hard to wire in so you may want to use something off a simpler car or maybe modify your orignal VW ones.Ill be using the corsa stuff cos i like to make my life hard - i havent done this bit yet as i dont actually have a loom....ill be making my own from scratch when the time comes.
 
richbaker78 said:
electrics the easiest bit - buy a controler on ebay....and wire it in as per instructions - there are lots of different ones from about £40 upwards.

YOu may want to think about which indicator stalks you use...corsa ones are apparently hard to wire in so you may want to use something off a simpler car or maybe modify your orignal VW ones.Ill be using the corsa stuff cos i like to make my life hard - i havent done this bit yet as i dont actually have a loom....ill be making my own from scratch when the time comes.
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Ive seen s/hand units for sale on e bay which include ecu boxes, are these the controlers? if not which one do I need as Im fitting it to a type 2 steering box :?: I appreciate your help.
 
no probs...you need the power steering column and the Vauxhall corsa ECU - which may be refferd to as a controller - they are a box about 4 inches square and are mounted on the column.

you can see the Ecu - square box on this just above the motor;
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/corsa-power-steering-column-escort-rally-nova_W0QQitemZ300222099412QQihZ020QQcategoryZ10404QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


In addition to this you will need a controller.....

something like this will do: there are others on the market and i have no idea ifthis ones any good - just and example.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Electric-power-steering-Corsa-C-RALLY-KIT-CAR_W0QQitemZ270234127459QQihZ017QQcategoryZ43120QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

then you just wire one to the other using the instructions with the controller.
 

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