1938 model b steering

So I picked up a model b for restoration as a high school ag class project. One thing I am stumped on........it steers backwards! What is going on folks? Turn wheel right the wheels turn to left???

Any chance it’s a C with a B front end? Sounds like it has a C steering gear box in it if it’s for sure a B.

supposed be a 1938, serial number 917, no starter hand brakes, wide front end. 

Pictures, pictures and more pictures. After 80 years and B C parts being interchangeable unless you know the slight differences in B and C parts it is hard to tell what you may have. The B steering box has a shorter out shaft with a constant spline. The C steering box has a longer out shaft that has a larger diameter spline that is not constant exact splines. They can bolt up tight to the torque tube because both the B and C uses the same torque tube. This is only one of many slight differences in parts that will interchange.

How Correct a 38 are wanting your Highschool project to be. I helped a friend do up a Early B like yours. #751.  I have a extra pair of the correct F&H Cast Iron front wheels for your early 38 B if yours don't have them.   Being the 816th B off the assembly line it came with 3 piece rear rims bolted to the wheel with 2 3/4 Bolts and 2 3/4 eccentrics. They may be long gone. 

This might help

like Dick said........ look at the front end linkage.. Does this gear box have a long rod that connects under the radiator, or does it connect to the left front wheel king pin area ?

In the summer of '68 I worked as a helper millwright, during change over. Some of the fork trucks there steered backwards, to go right you turned the steering counter clockwise.