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I Have 65 Mustang & A 76 Maverick I Was Wondering If Anybody Knew If I Could Put All The Maverick Suspension Brakes Rearend Etc 0n The Mustang Or What Might Or Might Not Work The Mustang Has Ms The Maverick Has Ps But Anyway I Go I Want Manual Steering On The Mustang I've Heard People Say The Ps Has A Faster Ratio And I Know They Have A Ps To Ms Adapter But Since I Have 2 Complete Cars I Don't Know.oh Yeah They Are Both Factory V8 Cars The Mustang Is Kind Of A Budget Restomod It Didn't Have The Original Eng Trans Etc When I Bought It So I'm Not Worried About Originaility I Know The Rearend Is Shot In The Mustang & Front Upper Control Arms To The Maverick Susp. Rear Is In Pretty Good Shape Iwould Appr. Any Help Thanks

[andrewmp6]

I believe some parts well try asking on a maverick forum maybe.

[The Greek]

The manual steering gear box ratio is 19:1 and the power steering box has a 16:1 ratio. You will have a faster steering response using the power steering box with the manual linkage. This is what I'm using on my 67, but you will not want to use a steering wheel any smaller than 14 inches or so. You will need the leverage of the larger st. wheel to offset the loss of mechanical advantage with the quicker ratio.

What this all boils down to is when you go with the quicker ratio box it gets harder to turn the st. wheel in parking situations. Once the car is moving the steering effort is greatly reduced.

If you decide to use the Maverick box, you will have to either go with a 68 collapsable st. column or do some modification so that you can use the Maverick column. The reason is that your original st. box has a long undetachable input shaft that runs from the box all the way to the st. wheel and the Mav. box has a short shaft with a "Rag Joint" that connects to a seperate shaft that runs through the st. column up to the st. wheel.

The short shaft boxes first started being used in the 67 Mustang, but not all 67s had them. All of the boxes went to the short shaft design in 68 so that a collapsable column could be used. Much safer than having a solid shaft aimed at your chest.