Anyone fitted power steering to a series 3 ?

[stormin]

I'm in the process of purchasing my own 1st Landy. I've was a navagator for many years for a mate who had a 2a, but have never actually owned or reguarly driven one myself.

With 'finance' wanting to drive it too, I'm concious of how heavy the steering is after a test drive yesterday. It also has 33/13.5 x 15 tyres on it.!!

Has anyone fitted PAS or know if a kit of a defender will fit straight on?

Cheers.

[ugandagander]

I think the power steering will go hand in hand with your wallet and how thick it is with foldies, in this modern world if they can rebuild a spitfire from a mess u can have your power steering, here in oz we have lots of restrictions but if its engineered correctly and safely its ok, u have some fine engineers in the UK and with some nouse and digging around u will solve your problem, I want all this stuff for my beast but at the moment I think I need to change to engine to a big Ford 6 Cylinder to power the beast along the road, the early defender idea is worth pursuing my old is right on the change to the 110 series defender go find a wreck and see.

[stormin]

Thanks for your help, I've driven another one since and it seems the 1st vehicle's wheel size has something to do with it - they're just too wide....

Good luck with yours.

[ugandagander]

dont be in a rush to can the wide wheels, they help eliminate wander to a degree and far more safer then the pizza cutters, they are fun I love them, someone has too

[p100]

Hi, I have seen a number of conversions over the years, some better than others!
The best and simplist I have seen is one which used a power steering ram from a yank motor, grafted onto the drag link, then a pas pump mounted were-ever onto the engine.
The hoses were sourced from the local hydraulic specialist and clipped to the chassis.
This was fitted to a lightweight and worked well, was stable and had no other problems.
Hope this helps
Cheers Roy

[stormin]

Many thanks for that too, will look into the situation harder now - it's only cause we want an old landy but the wife wants comfort of PAS !!

[ramthorne]

I would have thought fitting a Corsa electris column would be as easy as any option. You can get a column and ECU off ebay for about £80 and controler for £100.