?? Steering wheel and column

[pre1939chrysler]

Any body help me id this. 

J

[Craig Gillingham]

That's a Jacox steering box, they were used on a few different cars, Buicks, Oldsmobiles, etc.

[Guest]

The Jacox steering mechanism belongs to the screw-and-nut type of steering gear, but instead of employing only aleft-threaded screw, or worm, as is the case of the Ross and in the Warner steering gears, the Jacox gear has a right-and-left threaded screw and two half-nuts instead of a single nut.

The gear was used on Viking and Marquette cars, and on Buick cars prior to 1930.

 

I have a book with adjustments  and internal diagrams, if anyone needed them.

[nzcarnerd]

Maybe also Oakland?

[1937hd45]

Saw one on a doodle bug years ago and was told it came from a Buick. Bob 

[Guest]

If anyone is interested, here is a pdf with some information.

Jacox.pdf

[Larry Schramm]

Thanks Tinindian for the information. 

[Ivan Saxton]

1927 Cadillac 314B like the 4 passenger Phaeton I rebuilt under the wattle tree in the backyard, and used as my daily driver for several years in the early 1960s had this type of steering box. Later ones went back to worm and sector type.  I reckon the jacox was difficult to reduce free play as much as I would have wished.  I believe that the main practical advantage was that you could mount it easily for either Left or Right hand drive without clearance fitting troubles, by rotating it 180 degrees.