Steering Box Rebuild

[JM 35 Sedan]

Originally Posted by Mr. Will

Anyone else use the 37 and later steering box mount and have any issues?

Also would like to hear from any members that made this swap and drilled the box casting to fit the 35-36 frame mount.

We (Jeff/very tangled, his Dad, and I) installed a '37-'39 steering box in their '36 Phaeton several years ago. We tried every method that we could find or devise to attach the later box to the stock '36 frame mounting bracket and nothing worked well for us. The box interference with the left side exhaust manifold was a complete show stopper in our situation, unless we were willing to substantially raise the engine on its frame mounts. The fan blades were already very close to the bottom of the top radiator tank, so the decision was made to replace the stock steering box frame mount bracket with a '37-'41 bracket. Once the later bracket was in place EVERYTHING bolted back in place as if it was designed to originally fit in that '36 Phaeton. All the posts that we had read, people whom we had talked with, and other sources of information said this would not be the case, but we had a total bolt up situation on this particular conversion. The Earth, Moon, and Stars must have all been perfectly aligned for us on that one.
I believe there was a post with pictures here on this project. Jeff will probably remember.