yes i need a p/s rack for a mk4 escort
please help.
mike


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Good luck finding one!!!!

 

wasnt martin (mef) looking into doing this?

 

i have seen this done using a mk5 rack but fitting brackets are required to bolt the rack to the bulk head or in some cases are welded to the bulk head.

There was some mk4's fitted with power steering racks but this was done by an after market company to cater for the disabled drivers but these cars are harder to find the rocky-horse-shite i did however see one of these cars a 1.4gl as an uncle of mine was partially disabled but this was in the early ninties so i guess that one would have disappeared long ago.

but good look on your mission

 

i was thinking of the mk5 rack but the problem is the steering shafts are different

 

To fit the MK5 rack, you need to modify the steering shafts so that they fit, also as has been said above you would also need to weld on the brackets to the bulkhead to secure the rack.

Why are you thinking of doing the conversion?
If its just for parking i wouldnt bother, as at high speed the rack you are on about would be VERY nervous and twitchy, what you would need to get is a load sensitive rack, one that senses when you are going faster and adjusts the sensitvity accordingly. Its a very difficult coversion to do correctly.