tighten steering?

[rusty9]

hey i was a wondering today, how would one go about increasing steering wheel effort? the camry wheel is too easy to turn, not that it has much freeplay, it just needs to be "tighter". would the only solution be a different pump/pulley? or a different rack?

[AyzhenInvasion]

take off pump. weaken it..
add a strut bar (helps so barely u don't notice it...)

[73sport]

Not as easy as it sounds and by all means don't take the pump off or belt off for that matter.

The right way to fix this is to change the torsion bar in the control valve of the rack and pinion. Are you ready to pull the rack out and yank it apart? Basically you need a stiffer spring (torsion bar) in the spool valve. The problem, finding one. you don't say what car it is but do some seaching. A bas model car may have lighter steering for the general public. The SE models might have more resistence for the more aggresive drivers. So perhaps a rack swap from one model to another would punch your ticket.

I put a reman rack in and it has heavy resistence for sedan. But its perfect for me. This makes it harder to oversteer in the corners especailly if you slide and tend to over-react.

I have done this by putting GM saginaw parts in Ford car which also takes a GM pwr gear. basicaly using a High Performance GM torsion bar in my vintage 1973 Ford....

Do some research and make it happen.

Regards,

Randy

[rusty9]

thanks for the insight, ill check into those options.