2 tooth steering worm

[rcv94]

I was told by one of the vendors that the only place making steering worm gears is a company in Argentina. They are still making them but, cannot export them to the US. He said the US and Argentina are not playing in the same sand box well, and this is the result.

I contacted the argentine company CHS - Ricardo Cavallero SRL and they can export without problems to the US.
For 30 years they worked with MAC's Antique Auto Parts until Eckler Industries bought MAC's and they continued working with Eckler´s until they closed in 2020.
Currently Ricardo Cavallero SRL does not have a distributor for the Ford A and Ford Early V8 product lines, and for this reason their products are not in the US market.

 

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

I contacted the argentine company CHS - Ricardo Cavallero SRL and they can export without problems to the US.
For 30 years they worked with MAC's Antique Auto Parts until Eckler Industries bought MAC's and they continued working with Eckler´s until they closed in 2020.
Currently Ricardo Cavallero SRL does not have a distributor for the Ford A and Ford Early V8 product lines, and for this reason their products are not in the US market.

There are other large Model-A Vendors/Distributors (Snyders, Brattons, Berts, et/al) within the US besides Ecklers, so why do you suppose these other companies did not become distributors for CHS Auto?

 

[rcv94]

There are other large Model-A Vendors/Distributors (Snyders, Brattons, Berts, et/al) within the US besides Ecklers, so why do you suppose these other companies did not become distributors for CHS Auto?

I don't know, maybe they didn't reach a commercial agreement with those companies.
But I know that the Argentine company is still working and exporting to different countries around the world.
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[Dino's A]

Any votes to replace it with a Randy Gross Ford truck box? I love mine. Randy's father
put one in for my dad, around '95. Works great.

 

[Mike1291]

My local A guy mentioned that the 2 tooth would be about a grand while the F1/F100 box might be close to 2 grand w/o a core. I like the quick ratio steering of the 2 tooth and for cost and how little miles I put on my car I'll probably go with that. But if you drive a lot and want ease of steering there's nothing better than the truck box.

 

[Steve Schmauch]

Bob is correct in that the steering sector was not copper or chrome plated. Only the exposed area where the pitman arm attaches (the last 1 1/2") was raven finished, just like the spring steel clips for the distributor.

The steering worm gear was not chrome plated. They were copper plated over steel. What you are likely seeing is the highly polished steel surface, rubbed/polished under pressure by the sector gear in the areas where the copper has been rubbed off.