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As with most FJ40 Land Cruisers, the factory steering had become quite loose. With the large tires, power steering became a necessity. There are several options when going to power steering, I didn't research them all, but landed on the Saginaw conversion due to price and availability of replacement parts.
We Started with a piece of scrap steel to make a template of the gear box. This is the 3 bolt box from an early Chevy truck.
The inner and outer brackets were made out of 1/4" Steel. The inside of the frame was sleeved with DOM.
For the pitman arm I originally planned to use a factory Jeep Waggoneer arm. It fits the Chevy gearbox and the 3/4 ton Chevy or Dodge Tie Rod Ends but has too much drop for my setup. I ended up going with a universal version. It is splined to the gearbox but un-drilled on the tie rod side.
For the high steer arm I went with a Springless setup from 4WHEELSUPPLY on pirate4x4.com
(Yes It is temporarily on upside down)
I shortened the original tie rod and made a temporary PVC draglink
I used the measurements off of the temporary rods and had a new set of threaded DOM tie rod/drag link made up at WFOconcepts.com. Behind the steering is the PVC panhard bar template.
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