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KE70: rack and pinion or steering box?
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Fri, 15 April 2005 05:42
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as the post says , just need to know what type of steering.
cheers
dave
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Terrigal
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May 2002
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Re: KE70: rack and pinion or steering box?
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Fri, 15 April 2005 06:12
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all the ke70's i've seen are r&p 
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On Probation
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North East NSW
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Re: KE70: rack and pinion or steering box?
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Fri, 15 April 2005 06:41
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r&p. no you can't bolt the crossmember into any earlier corolla
te71 (aka t18) and every other corolla earlier than ke70 has a recirculating ball steering box
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Terrigal
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Sydney
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April 2003
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Re: KE70: rack and pinion or steering box?
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Fri, 15 April 2005 07:43
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sweet, i'm picking up a KE70 on the weekend, and am going to put an AE71 crossmember in it so i can can put an A series motoer in it, and i was just making sure
cheers
dave
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New Zealand
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May 2002
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Re: KE70: rack and pinion or steering box?
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Fri, 15 April 2005 11:55
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I have seen a large number of KE70's with steering boxes, all were wagons though. They were all NZ new, not sure on what was sold in Oz.
Callum
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On Probation
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North East NSW
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December 2002
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Re: KE70: rack and pinion or steering box?
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Fri, 15 April 2005 12:54
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jap spec and wagons are generally wierd
ke70 wagons still had leaves
once i saw a jap ke70 sedan at the wreckers around here. twin headlights, a wierd radiator support panel, aircon and thermofans. it also had jap running gear: little ke30 brakes on the front and a 6" jap diff with 3.909 ratio. that must have been one crappy ke70 to drive
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Melbourne, Australia
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March 2005
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Re: KE70: rack and pinion or steering box?
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Fri, 15 April 2005 15:47
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| TurboRA28 wrote on Fri, 15 April 2005 16:42 |
Jesse on these forums has proved you can put a KE70 xmember with r&P into a T18! Appears to be bolt in conversion..
Makes me wonder why every t18 isn't running a R&P setup now 
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It's because the driver side engine-to-bellhousing elbow brace would foul on the knuckle where the steering shaft meets the rack in T engine applications.
I'm running 2T-G in KE70 on a TE71 rack fitted with KE70 steering rack; it's all sweet escept for that brace, which I'm running without without problems.
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Melbourne, Australia
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March 2005
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Re: KE70: rack and pinion or steering box?
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Fri, 15 April 2005 15:49
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| the dayo wrote on Fri, 15 April 2005 17:43 |
sweet, i'm picking up a KE70 on the weekend, and am going to put an AE71 crossmember in it so i can can put an A series motoer in it, and i was just making sure
cheers
dave
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KE70 rack will fit the AE71 crossmember. They may be the same part.
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Melbourne, Australia
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March 2005
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Re: KE70: rack and pinion or steering box?
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Fri, 15 April 2005 15:51
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| Purple_Beasty wrote on Fri, 15 April 2005 21:55 |
I have seen a large number of KE70's with steering boxes, all were wagons though. They were all NZ new, not sure on what was sold in Oz.
Callum
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KE70s in some markets are sold with recirculating ball steering. Not sure why, pretty sure they'd be the earliest production runs and mostly Japanese production (as I believe NZ cars would be, no local production plant as with AMI in Australia). Pretty sure no AMI-manufactured KE70s were ever fitted with steering boxes.
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