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Originally Posted by roger1
The Borgeson 800130 has 88 degrees of total travel. A stock Saginaw 800 A body box as well as 67-81 F Body 800 boxes have 87 degrees. Virtually the same. All owners of the Borgeson box that have posted in this thread have said they work great in their cars.
It's only the 3 generation of F Bodies that had boxes that limited the travel of the Saginaw 800 from 60 to 70 degrees of travel according to this article:
https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/cc...g-box-upgrade/ |
The article specifies that the 3rd Gen F-body boxes have restricted travel. It doesn't say that the 1st and 2nd generation boxes
don't have restricted travel.
Look at one of the actual references that article mentions:
https://www.chevelles.com/threads/sa...#post-11389061
Most 1st and 2nd Gen F- (and similar-year X-) bodies are restricted to ~70 degrees of travel. About 35 degrees either direction.
A '75 Nova (X-body) steering gear DESTROYED the turning radius of my '68 'Camino.
I was wrong about the PS hose connectors on the '79--81 F-body box posted earlier. The hose connectors changed for '80, I thought they changed earlier than that. If he got a '79 box, the hose connections would have been a direct match for the existing hoses on the vehicle. If it was an '80--'81, the hose connections would have been the O-ring style instead of the inverted-flare.