<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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