[AJD] Aftermarket Power Steering??? 2nd try

[Ronald L. Cook]

Dean,
	My experience tells me you will never get the factory power steering on 
your tractors to work as good as the Behlen.  Nor will you be able to 
find anything more ugly.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA


Dean VP wrote:

> Dee/Steve:
> 
> It seems like the hoses needed to be "hell for stout" and as a result are
> hard to route around to get them hidden. I'm trying to find out what the
> flow and pressure requirements are.  I'm hoping that with maybe newer hose
> technology, smaller and more pliable hoses could be used to allow a little
> more flexibility in the routing. I can possibly see a way of getting the
> reservoir between the gas tank and the crankcase cover but no way to get the
> hoses connected as well. Maybe a different configuration tank would solve
> the problem.
> 
> If the doggone power steering didn't work so well, I'd just take it off due
> to its ugliness. Don't really need the power steering but with a loader on
> it sure is handy. I guess it does show what farmers did to solve a problem
> when they didn't have factory power steering. I sure can see why one would
> go to a salvage yard and try to find a factory setup off of a later tractor.
> But quite a bit of expense and a whole bunch of work and then one ends up
> with a "bastard" tractor. I doubt farmers gave a tinkers damn about how it
> looked. 
> 
> This particular Behlen unit seems to work slightly better than the factory
> power steering on my 520 and 620 but they haven't been "tuned up" yet
> either.  These units came out before JD introduced Power Steering in 1954 so
> these probably forced JD to provide a competitive solution. 
> 
> Dean A. Van Peursem
> Snohomish, WA 98290
> 
> Forbidden fruits create many jams!
> 
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