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Originally Posted by rspears

Can you help me understand the working relationship of the two steering boxes? You have the input shaft on the right side, looking from back to front. How are the two boxes interconnected such that it reduces the steering forces, and are both boxes connected via pitman arms?

The two steering boxes are inter-connected both mechanically and hydraulically.
Willie's idea is that you're not increasing pressure; but there is a larger volume available to facilitate steering at low revs.
Changing vehicles from left to right-hand drive is all he does, and he does it extremely successfully; he must have about twenty top tradesmen working for him, and he's done many thousands of conversions over the last twenty years.
Here's a link to his website:
Eagle Automotive Ltd - THE BUSINESS

I can't yet answer if it does in fact work, I won't know until such time as we can fire it up and road test it; but to me, logic says it will.

And knowing Willie, (Robin can affirm this,) if he says it will then it will.

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Originally Posted by johnboy

The two steering boxes are inter-connected both mechanically and hydraulically.
Willie's idea is that you're not increasing pressure; but there is a larger volume available to facilitate steering at low revs.
Changing vehicles from left to right-hand drive is all he does, and he does it extremely successfully; he must have about twenty top tradesmen working for him, and he's done many thousands of conversions over the last twenty years.
Here's a link to his website:
Eagle Automotive Ltd - THE BUSINESS

I can't yet answer if it does in fact work, I won't know until such time as we can fire it up and road test it; but to me, logic says it will.

And knowing Willie, (Robin can affirm this,) if he says it will then it will.

.

Can you explain the mechanical connections?

Originally Posted by rspears

Can you explain the mechanical connections?

Each box has its own pitman arm and spindle arm, and they're connected with a common tie rod, so that everything works in unison.

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Originally Posted by johnboy

The two steering boxes are inter-connected both mechanically and hydraulically.
Willie's idea is that you're not increasing pressure; but there is a larger volume available to facilitate steering at low revs.
Changing vehicles from left to right-hand drive is all he does, and he does it extremely successfully; he must have about twenty top tradesmen working for him, and he's done many thousands of conversions over the last twenty years.
Here's a link to his website:
Eagle Automotive Ltd - THE BUSINESS

I can't yet answer if it does in fact work, I won't know until such time as we can fire it up and road test it; but to me, logic says it will.

And knowing Willie, (Robin can affirm this,) if he says it will then it will.

.

With Photobucket, you did nothing wrong. Occasionally it will just show the link. It is frustrating as the next time it's all right - that old story, time of the day, phase of the moon, whether the sun is emitting sunspots, etc. So Ms Lynda doesn't need to be bothered.

Also - if you remove or change things around in Photobucket, it disappears from here as it is a link only to their website

The "Manage Attachments" below has 3-4 steps but always seems to work.

Keep it going - if someone is too lazy to click on a link - their loss