Finding a good ZF type 3 core not run with open boots full of sand/water/rust is getting a little difficult.
I may sell some good evaluated cores but I?m hoarding all 5 for me & friends right now?
Slightly different pressure spec on last couple years if you want to run the later ?85+ style pressure regulator valve & pump but not much different?
So many racks per year & variations they the years, narrow year range to get desirable ZF type 3, all those donors are pre galvanized body for USA donor cars or developed a leak with shrunken seals even if the gears were good snd leak often dissolves the boots in cars run around sans belly pan for some years now being driven into ground/abused bad when the cars were cheap / last decade has been hard on them for good cores.
Sellholm sells faster guts.
Or electric + rare bear(in the states) replaced 1979+ 19mm spline ZF manual rack & 2.5 turn guts for it?
1980 is last year of manual rack in states, only cars I?ve ever see a ZF manual rack were installed as replacement stateside to replace a worn out cam manual rack. Rare.
Europe probably has ZF manual rack cores if oj want to do the electric column thing with less in the engine bay?
I rather like hydraulic PS, but hydraulic PS rack with 249 travel/geometry in front mount has kinda gone the way of the dodo?
The cam racks are junk and often have worn gears which no one repops, unless you?re just installing a low miler late cam TRW that works *at all*, avoid.
Skinny(ish) tires, -?79 steelies or similar with inboard offset, taxi ball joints, stock right height, ZF type 3 code evaluated carefully with good gears and no rust or slop inside.
No fuss.
Sellholm guts for it if you got the dough & (dollar exchange rate favorable lately) If you can assemble yourself.
Short of losing your mind with completely different X-member & suspension everything?
