Manual steering box, upside down?

[Malicious]

Hi All,

In the process fo building an almost all Mopar hot rod, mainly using parts from my coronet build, and I'm working on the steering plan at the moment.

I'm wondering, can I mount a manual Steering Box upside down? I will either run a manual B Body or a Vega box. How will the react to being upside down? I'm wondering if lubrication will be a problem?

Appreciate any thoughts!

 

[gkent]

It's lubed with grease so it shouldn't matter. But you could certainly find smaller, lighter steering boxes to put in a hotrod !! Sometimes you just have to let go of the Mopar phobia for the sake of practicality.

 

[Malicious]

Yeah agreed, the Vega box is probably my preference, but I'm trying to find out if either will work with the pitman shaft pointing up first then work from there.