Steering wheel turning itself viciously

[viperar15]

Ok, so i have been doing an SAS on a 99 Ranger. Used to have a rack and pinion setup. Putting in a Gear Box from about a 76 Ford F150 i believe (its the box that sits on top of the frame with the arm coming down on the outside of the frame.

i hooked it up to the stock power steering pump. put in PS fluid. and it causes the steering to viciously steer back and forth and sometime stick to the point if i try to turn it back, it stalls out the ranger. motor and all that is still all stock.

any ideas? i search all 25 pages here in steering and found nothing.... :-(

its bad enough, if your finger was in the wrong spot, it would probably break your finger as the steering wheel flys around...

 

[fordwheelinman]

id check to see if the lines are in the right spot, other wise you might be best to go with an earlier model ranger box like from a 97 back truck.

 

[viperar15]

i was thinking about trying to flip flop them tomorrow. put the pressure line on the smaller hole and return on the larger hole.

 

[viperar15]

well... contacted the company who i bought the gearbox from.... yup, according to them, i have my high pressure line hooked up to the low pressure port. gruff... shall see how it works tonight!

ford gear boxes high pressure port is the smaller port. gruff...

 

[viperar15]

**note to self** hook the damn lines up properly and things work perfect!

thank u wheelinman!