MK1 GOLF Power steering for £40 :)

Matt said

the starlet track rod ends are the same profile as the vw ones so i put those back in and as much as they are the same profile they are a little longer so on the top you get a few mm gap from the arm to the rubber dust seal (not big deal in my opinion) and at the bottom where you bolt it in with the castle nut i had to put a washer onto it just so that the whole in the track rod end was in line with the castelations on the nut to put the spilt pin through as for pipe work i used the starlet pressure pipe which is long enough if you run it around the left side of the bay (engine cambelt end) and the banjo fitting is the right size for the vw PAS pump  then i brought some hose from halfrauds as a return from pump to resavoir run around the right hand side of the bay to a mk2 bottle then back to the rack, i'll post a pic now engine is back out, finally fired up the engine and test drove it and its as sweet as a nut ….. Matt-

just to add that i missed out on is when you make the braket to mount it onto your bulkhead you then use the starlet rubber mounts and the starlet metal u brackets as the vw one don't fit around the fatter starlet rack and if you think that when doing a 16v conversion the downpipes are close to the original rack then this is obviously the same so make sure you heatwrap them and also, and this for some reason really did shock me is that although i had to make the bracket for the rod change bigger to fit around the starlet rack which in effect was pushing the whole rod change mechanism forward 15mm my gear change is still perfect and needed no alterations what so ever .. bonus !!! so there you go a fully working power steering conversion for your beloved mk1 that cost me a whole £40 Matt

rubjonny said

random, I got an email telling me about the reply this morning