Hi from England - new A100 owner...

Hi ya, Thought I'd say, "Hi" before I start asking for help.  Yesterday I bought a 1964 three window A100 pick up with a three speed column change and a 170 six.  It's joining my little fleet that includes a couple of Harleys, a 1930s style kit car roadster, and my Jaguar powered 1936 Austin 16/6 hot rod.
The A100 is a bit of a rarity over here so I'll be picking brains if I may.  Our journey home wasn't without incident.  I picked it up from about 150  miles away and in that distance it lost its brakelights, speedo', practically everything that could shake loose did and to top it all, leaving a roundabout to join a busy motorway it lost its gearchange...  I nursed it home and today sorted the gearchange (for now - one of the bushes had disintegrated) and tried to adjust the steering.  Unfortunately the adjuster was already wound right down so a recon' is in order.  Can anyone tell me for definite which steering box I have as I can't identify it from the stuff I've read on here?  I read that it should be a Saginaw 525 or a Ross24J but how do I tell which it is?  Cheers for any advice, much appreciated.  I'll try and load some pic's up as it's a cool looking truck; even if it does steer like a trawler.

Hi, welcome to VV! I'm an Econoline Vanup owner myself, so I can't answer your questions. I can, however sympathize with the "steering like a trawler". In Oklahoma we call it "hunting". I always kinda thought it was referring to "hunting which ditch to run off in".

Jim

assuming yours is similar to a chevy steering box, their is a top adjustment too. you would have to loosen the side adjustment first, adjust the top to eliminate any play and then re adjust side. Donavan has an excellent write up on it here on this site. be aware that new seals and bearings will not fix worn gears! when I had mine done, I researched, then called and asked what was done in a rebuild. found a shop that actually machined the gears and added shims as needed. most remans are just old gears with new bearings and adjusted properly.

Hi, Thanks for the replies. I'm gradually working my way through this site and learning what I can. There's a lot of info'/knowledge on here, just a matter of finding it and applying it...

Welcome from Germany as well. Another one over here in europe, I like it . Have a five window myself (still at the body shop...)

69 wrote:Welcome from Germany as well. Another one over here in europe, I like it . Have a five window myself (still at the body shop...)

Cheers, I've seen your thread, a nice job... I'm hoping not to get so involved with mine!

Welcome ! Your in the Right place. Your A-100 looks to be in very good shape. I believe it's not a three window version because it doesn't have "cab corner" windows. I have a '68 pick-up with the single rear window too. Hope you get everything working again.

Cheers, sorry don't know why I posted that - it's obviously a single window, not a three window. Spent so long looking at pic's and reading spec's must have had a bit of brain fade... I was actually joking with my missus that had it had the extra windows I would have told my mates I'd bought a three window - it's almost totally accepted over here that a three window is a '32 Ford (way out of my, or most folks budget).
It is in good shape with just a little rot under the battery behind the driver's seat and a bit thin in places. Mechanically it's a bit tired, mainly wants a good spanner twirling session and various perished bushes and the like replaced. I expect the problem will be finding them rather than fitting them...

Well, I always like to compare with the five/three window hot rods. Three window is with two side and one rear window, five window has two additional windows on each side.

Hence, you'd have a three window, I have a five window.

BTW - I always love to explain the truck as a mid-engine-rear-drive two door (coupe).

Nice three window! Welcome aboard!!

Sunny Southsea today
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