Fitting power steering to Stage 1

casamercedes · Post by **casamercedes** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:11 am

Hi,

Whilst I have been rebuilding my station wagon, I have been considering fitting of power steering.

It would seem to be a lot easier than trying to do it on an ordinary Series 111.

Has anybody done this and what parts did they use?

All info greatfully received

Dave

map1275 · Post by **map1275** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:19 pm

The only legal conversions use a straightforward clamp-on system with remote rams. There are least two kits available that are intended for Ser III.

Otherwise you have to modify chassis and bulkhead. I haven't seen or read of one conversion yet that actually addressed the legal/safety/insurance aspects as part of the conversion.

disco2hse · Post by **disco2hse** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:12 pm

Been posted on here before, but here you go
http://www.expeditionlandrover.info/PowerSteering.htm

John Roach · Post by **John Roach** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:41 am

Have only heard good things about this company's products (formerly TI Console). Not sure if their kit fits a Stage 1, though they claim it fits all Series, and they are familiar with Stage 1's. Bit pricey, mind.

http://www.heystee-automotive.com/

Regards,

John

casamercedes · Post by **casamercedes** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:56 am

John Roach wrote:Have only heard good things about this company's products (formerly TI Console). Not sure if their kit fits a Stage 1, though they claim it fits all Series, and they are familiar with Stage 1's. Bit pricey, mind.

http://www.heystee-automotive.com/

Regards,

John

Thanks for that and I have been in contact with them before, but as you say they are VERY expensive. The kit does fit the Stage 1 as well as the standard series vehicles.

Regards Dave

Andy Dawe · Post by **Andy Dawe** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:42 am

I looked into this seriously.

When Chris Perfect was UK distributor for the power steering kits. I contacted him and had a very long conversation on how the ram kit from T.I. fits.

The kit is designed to fit a 2.25 petrol or diesel and early 2.5s. The stage one's front cross member fouls the ram and therefore the cross member needs cutting out and repositioning. The pump supplied in the kit is a low volume pump with a large capacity reservoir. Modern pumps such as the ZF can produce tool much pressure as blow ram seals. According to Mr Perfect a blown ram seal is unheard of and they wont warrant your use of non kit parts.
You can fit a pressure reducer but this all adds cost and T.I. at that time would not sell individual parts ie ram and brackets.

I also looked into fitting a defender system and somewhere on this forum is a good magazine article on how to do it.

Good luck keep us posted.

Andy Dawe · Post by **Andy Dawe** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:19 pm

Found it

http://www.stage1v8.org.uk/phpBB2/viewt ... hlight=pas