adding caster to p18

[lwebb]

Morning, I need to see if anyone has a work around for adding positive caster to the steering on a 1949 Plymouth Special Deluxe.

To start, I’m not able to do the work and I am having it done. Good mechanic and he can solve the problem but quicker and cheaper to see if anyone has already done it and just to follow their lead as to the easiest way to get there.

 

It has a 03 dodge 5.7 semi with automatic transmission. The RustyHope disk brakes kit and a front end Jeep sway bar and the shock mounts moved to the frame. Cheaper would have been a clip but hindsight doesn’t  help me much.

Recently the cavalier power steering conversion using the Fat Mans kit and that’s where he’s unhappy with the caster setting. 

What would be he best way to approach adding more positive caster the the default on the P18?

 

 

Lanny

[RUSTYSNACK]

Why do you need to add positive camber? are you having handling issues?

i am currently building a 1950 Plymouth rat rod and have been acquiring parts to do these same modifications..I was looking for information on a few things and stumbled here..i have all the disc brake and shock relocation stuff already.. But i cant seem to find a webpage for that "fat man" cavalier power rack install kit, or info on what is needed to swap in the cherokee sway bar..  can you help point me in the right direction?

[lwebb]

No, Not Pos camber, Pos caster.The power steering is fantastic in a parking lot but jumpy at highway speed. You move the steering wheel half an inch and the wheels turn. Its’s not much but noticeable and when pulling a trailer, It’s nerve racking. I think it needs about 6º of caster to make it handle better.

I just have no idea how to do that and in the past when I posted on this site, a number of folks chimed in to give suggestions.

Most of what I did I got from advice taken from posts here or at http://www.hotrodders.com. and http://www.jalopyjournal.com HAMB forum. Between the posts and a really good hot rod mechanic. it got done.

 

Here a re a few of the links I saved for reference:

http://p15-d24.com/topic/39618-f1-shock-relo-rough-ride/?hl=shocks

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/fatmans-power-rack-and-pinion-conversion.140107/

http://www.fatmanfab.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WholeCat_web.pdf

on the FatMans, you need to call and talk to them and tell them exactly what you have.

 

http://p15-d24.com/topic/8507-power-steering-solutions/

http://p15-d24.com/topic/19810-cavalier-rack-installation-question/

http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/power-steering-49-plymouth-207053.html

http://p15-d24.com/topic/15931-power-rack-and-pinion-experience/

 

I can’t find the posts on the Jeep Sway Bar but search just that here and the other sites and you will get a lot of info

 

[RUSTYSNACK]

I actually just found the posts about doing a Jeep cherokee sway bar swap after a few hours of searching..I have reposted here maybe it'll be easier to find in the future for someone. I am doing this to my 1950 Plymouth.