<VV> Reversed FR steering box No Corvair

Dave Keillor dkeillor at tconcepts.com
Sat Dec 29 16:08:25 EST 2012


I figured that if I could learn to drive it that way, it would be a great
theft deterrent.  Then I though again. :)

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Smitty <vairologist at cox.net> wrote:

>
> -- FR steering box.  Amusing aside -- the first box I received was reversed
> so when steering right the car turned left.  Glad I caught it before I hit
> the road. :)
> Dave
> **************************************Smitty says;  Many years ago I built
> a
> feather weight 14 ft boat from scratch.  Built my own Fwd steering system.
> 40 HP Merc outboard.  Virgin run, I put it in the water alongside my dock
> and walked it down the dock to deeper water and tied it to the head of the
> dock parallel to the beach.  Got in it and fired it up.  Put it in gear and
> shoved the throttle home.  It literally leapt out of the water and was on a
> plane in about 20 ft.  Then I made a steering correction.  I thought it was
> going to eat me alive, as I had the steering reversed.  My suggestion from
> the experience is, don't ever do that.
>
>


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