Has anyone upgraded to a Saginaw p/s pump? If so, what mods or brackets did you use, and which pump?

I've been looking at one from a 79 Lincoln Mark V, but don't know if it will work on the 300 oem bracket.

 

The easiest route would probably be to find a van with a 300 and just pull it brackets and all. Maybe this site will help:

Car-Part.com--Used Auto Parts Market

 

Easy to build one. Find a racer or hot rod shop to build u one, take two hours at most in my shop. Tucson....

 

I found the answer to my own post: Saginaw 20-6244. It is the only pump they made to match the Ford bolt pattern.

Another good pump to use with a hydroboost system, is the one on a 79 lincoln Mark V. It is a saginaw, with dual returns. Some guys will drill out the passage for an easy 1500 psi.

 

The early/mid eighties Econoline vans came with a Saginaw pump, and some of them had 4.9s in them. But they are difficult to find because all the guys using a hydroboost system search them out.

Pull the brackets, or just the one on the pump and Fab. it to your existing bracket. Then you can get a rebuilt pump w/reservoir for $40 at A.zone.

Also, I did find the 20-6244 at Kragen/O'reilleys, a direct bolt in, for $75.

 

If you can find an Econoline with a 300 it looks like a direct bolt-in. I pulled one at the jy this weekend and from just a quick eyeball test once I got home it should be pretty much plug-and-play.

Someone was kind enough to have taken the steering box from the van I plundered and <S>cut</S> chewed through (apparently) the high pressure hose, so if the one on the Bronco doesn't fit right it's off to NAPA to have something built to fit. Meh. Otherwise it shouldn't be more than a 10-15 minute job.

 

[quote=BaronVonAutomatc;9650779]If you can find an Econoline with a 300 it looks like a direct bolt-in. I pulled one at the jy this weekend and from just a quick eyeball test once I got home it should be pretty much plug-and-play.

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How much of the mounting bracket did you take off the van?
From the block out... or just the part that bolts to the pump?
This is on my wish list also. My last trip to the JY I found a early 80 van with a 300 but it did not have power steering.
My truck uses the middle V groove as I have AC.
Jim

 

The pump, brackets, and pressure hose from a 300 powered Econoline van will bolt right on with little to no mods. I did it on my 84 F150, I did have to tweek the metal portion of the pressure hose a bit to clear around the top of the steering box. Very easy swap.

 

The van I found was perfect, maybe. Carbed 300 with A/C. There's a bracket on the pump and another that bolts to the timing cover and shares a bolt to the block with the A/C compressor bracket.

The pump outlet is on the back of the saginaw, though. I wish the hose hadn't been mangled on the one I got; probably end up having to get the stock one rebuilt to fit.

 

You don't have to do any of this if you use the Saginaw 20-6244. You can buy it from Autozone for about 50 bucks and its a direct bolt on and the hoses match up. I did this about a year ago on my 300 when I got fed-up with the whine and leaking.

 

Thanks. I mentioned that further up in one of my earlier posts. Maybe it is different in other parts of the country, but he in S. Cal. the 20-6244 is getting hard to find. A.zone no longer carries it. Several of the other a.parts no longer can get it. I did find it at O'reilleys for $75. It seems that pump never came oem on any vehicle. A1 Cardone took a Saginaw pump, and made an adapter for it to fit Fords. But they have now stopped making it. In a few years I'll bet it will be unavailable.

The pump works great, and the hydroboost coversion was the best thing I have ever done. The breaks are unbelievable. It was cheap and relatively easy.

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Here is the Saginaw pump. Someone on the forum mentioned 'the hillbilly mod', which was to drill out the high pressure port a bit, to develope more psi, but I kept it original. It seems to me that more space means less psi.

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The pumps you find on the Econoline are the 'canned ham' sytle reservoir, and I think I like them better, but 'well enough' is good enough.