07-26-2016, 03:15 PM
Still pondering what to do about the Howard Power Center.
The cylinder must be rebuilt and now I found out that the sight glass for oil level has a crack on the back side. Will need a new one.
Anybody know of a source ?
Waste of time and money to rebuild the cylinder if I can not find the oil level sight glass....
On a different note, I have been in contact and exchanging emails with the engineers at BlueOx regarding their TruCenter Steering control TC35270. They do not list an application for the Newell with IFS but.....because the Howard cylinder is already there maybe I can find a way to use the Howard rear frame bracket and tierod to make a TruCenter system work.
As it turns out, their Cylinder is 35" long vs 36" for the Howard. I can get them to put a 3/4" hole busing in the rear bearing and match the size of the Howard tierod. The geometry is the same. May need a new/custom bracket for the front of the cylinder with 3/4" mounting tierod/bolt and use 2" Ubolts to clamp the front bracket onto the steering arm.....
Could be a solution to replace the Howard with an electric steering stabilizer that seems to have reviews and potentially do a good job. This Dana Kirkstall IFS84 does not have a lot of room to add brackets and play with things down below......
Any thoughts on the Blue Ox TruCenter ?
The cylinder must be rebuilt and now I found out that the sight glass for oil level has a crack on the back side. Will need a new one.
Anybody know of a source ?
Waste of time and money to rebuild the cylinder if I can not find the oil level sight glass....
On a different note, I have been in contact and exchanging emails with the engineers at BlueOx regarding their TruCenter Steering control TC35270. They do not list an application for the Newell with IFS but.....because the Howard cylinder is already there maybe I can find a way to use the Howard rear frame bracket and tierod to make a TruCenter system work.
As it turns out, their Cylinder is 35" long vs 36" for the Howard. I can get them to put a 3/4" hole busing in the rear bearing and match the size of the Howard tierod. The geometry is the same. May need a new/custom bracket for the front of the cylinder with 3/4" mounting tierod/bolt and use 2" Ubolts to clamp the front bracket onto the steering arm.....
Could be a solution to replace the Howard with an electric steering stabilizer that seems to have reviews and potentially do a good job. This Dana Kirkstall IFS84 does not have a lot of room to add brackets and play with things down below......
Any thoughts on the Blue Ox TruCenter ?
MG