Thread: Power steering options

Originally Posted by Z24O

Recently purchased a '68 SWB and wouldn't mind putting power steering in it.What are the options?Any mods that are cheap,easy and readily available?

In a word - NO.

It is possible to fit power steering to any Series Landrover, but none of the possibilities are cheap, easy or readily available.

There is a UK kit that has been sold, not sure whether it is currently available. It adds a power cylinder to the existing setup. Relatively easy to fit, but far from cheap. Similar conversions have been done using parts from local models, early Falcon comes to mind. Fairly cheap, if you do the work yourself, but not easy nor readily available. Perhaps the most stisfactory would be to rework the steering column similar to 90/110/Defender and fit the power steering box off one of these. This involves extensive work including chassis modifications, but at least most of the bits are readily available. If you pay someone to do it, it will be very expensive, and the box alone will be $500 -1200.

All of these options would require engineering approval. Power steering was never an option on any Series Landrover.

One of the things that I have thought about from time to time, but with standard tyre sizes and the proper pressures and everything in good shape, the steering is not too bad anyway.

John

G'day Z240

JDNSW hit the nail on the head right off, and as he said, with the original size tyre/rim/inflation combo they are fairly light on the steering, providing that the swivel pins and relay are in good condition and adjusted correctly, setting the correct preload on the swivels is a major factor in this.

cheers

not realy what i wanted to hear,but thanks fellas

A 60 series cruiser PAS box is the easiest option IMHO, and is what I will be doing. However it is a custom job.

keep us posted with what you come up with, in the meantime just get used to lots of 3 point turns. One other option you may consider is MQ patrol steering box unassisted these seem to have a great mechanical advantage over all the moving parts.

Late 60s holden kingswood might go as I understand it was a bolt on addition rather than fully integrated - I understand the hydraulic ram can bolt onto one of the landie steering rods.

Have heard it done but other than that I have not details - and I do not know how well it works.

Garry

I have a heap of Land Rover Owner International mags here and a few cover this topic. If I come across them I'll scan and post up. As the other boys say if its on stock tyres and in fair order they are not that bad. I've found they have no bad Kickback unlike the early Toyotas we have here(They will break your arm). For this reason I've never bothered converting a series.Tony.

Originally Posted by isuzurover

A 60 series cruiser PAS box is the easiest option IMHO, and is what I will be doing. However it is a custom job.

LC60 PAS box is a good conversion. I've done this.

Defender column, down to a LC60 jack shaft which goes onto the LC60 PAS box. I then ran this to LC60 axles.

You will need to plate the chassis where the PAS box goes on and it sits on the outside of the chassis, not the inside. We also welded the LC60 jackshaft to the Defender uni on the steering. I had moved the front Xmember to fit a V8, so I'm not sure how this will interfere with mounting the PAS box.