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Originally Posted by special-K
I don't throw good things out either. I have some 2wd manual steering boxes from low mile C/30s that got converted to 4wd. I figure they are good for any number of things, possibly non-automotive. I have some granny 4spds too, same reason. I might want to make a merry-go-round or something 
I kept this '69 W200 manual. I was young and never gave the effort a thought. I got the "Armstrong steering" comments all the time. |
The older pickups were somehow engineered for manual steering. Let's see, I had a manual C/10 and a manual C/50 (both 1965) and neither of them were terribly hard to drive. The folks I worked for in the winter had a 65/66 K20 all manual and I don't remember it being hard to steer. We used it mostly to feed cows in the winter. They also had a 46 and a 47 dump truck and some old "Advanced" pickups and a Dodge power wagon. I guess that I worked so hard that steering those old trucks was taking a break
But we had a 1977 C/10 Suburban with manual steering and it was awful! You would literally lift yourself off the seat trying to turn at low speeds. The 73-87 steering wheel was smaller and more vertical than the older pickups.