Sport steering/fast steering arms

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Sport steering/fast steering arms

Postby Bob Bauer » Tue May 10, 2016 5:57 pm

I am tearing into my car, fixing/replacing/painting/etc and while under the front end noticed that the steering arms are greatly larger than usual.

The car turns about 3 1/2 turns lock to lock, so something has changed, and its probably the arms, but I have never seen a set so large.

Does anyone know, were these part of the Crown package, or are these some aftermarket ends. They have no numbers that I can see, but I will have them off in a short time, due to cleaning, blasting
the front end.

Awaiting an answer from the guru's
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Re: Sport steering/fast steering arms

Postby Richard Miller » Wed May 11, 2016 12:55 pm

I have a set of fast arms on my car ,, purchased a long time ago , but i believe i got them from Clarks ,, they are very thick .
LONG time ago i bought some from a firm i think was called IECO . also thick . i am in the process of installing flaming river quick ratio box and may go back to stock arms .. note the new box is heavier and somewhat larger than stock . cool to hear about your progress on the car .
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Re: Sport steering/fast steering arms

Postby Louisville Lanning » Fri May 20, 2016 1:16 pm

The question of quick steering arms was sent to Howard Trevor for comment. I will post his reply on the Forum.
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Re: Sport steering/fast steering arms

Postby Bob Bauer » Fri May 20, 2016 8:11 pm

thanks John
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Re: Sport steering/fast steering arms

Postby Louisville Lanning » Mon May 30, 2016 8:17 am

Howard Trevor has confirmed to me that he is not aware that Crown sold quick steering arms for Crown conversions. Here's what he said in an email to me:

I didn't find Corvair steering arms in the catalog, just VW. I tried to spot one in the pictures of Corv-8 items but also didn't spot one. The ones I have are probably Clarks.
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Re: Sport steering/fast steering arms

Postby Bob Bauer » Tue May 31, 2016 9:04 am

thanks again.

I am going to take them off and clean them and see if they are marked in any way.
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Re: Sport steering/fast steering arms

Postby sherwood park rexin » Tue May 31, 2016 1:33 pm

Bob, I took some photos of my front suspension parts yesterday. My steering arms are 8" total length, fairly thick, gold anolized and I didn't see any markings on them when I was cleaning them up. I was told the gold anolized parts are Crown parts. I'm not sure my info is correct or if this info is of any use.
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Re: Sport steering/fast steering arms

Postby Bob Bauer » Wed Jun 01, 2016 9:36 am

Soon I will take mine off and check them. I will let you all know Bob
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Re: Sport steering/fast steering arms

Postby Bob Bauer » Tue Jun 14, 2016 8:55 am

OK I took the arms off

They are considerably larger than stock, and 2 1/2 inches shorter than stock.

They are not marked, so no names or numbers.


Any ideas who made these.
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Re: Sport steering/fast steering arms

Postby Button Groton » Tue Jun 14, 2016 9:16 pm

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