Power Steering Pump??
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Power Steering Pump??
So people talk about putting the Saginaw steering pump into these old trucks and it would require a bracket to be made for it too fit on my set up, (FE engine---78-79 F250 4x4 steering gear). If I'm going to go through the hassle of making a bracket is there any other pump yall would recommend, or is this just the best of the best. Has anybody used a pump off of a newer truck or car (Super duty, Newer F-150, Ram, etc...). I'm just trying to get my options open but from research that came out of Pirate4x4.Com - Extreme Four Wheel Drive , I'm going to assume that the Saginaw is the best... Any thoughts?
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I just put a NAPA reman Ford pump in my '78 dent. I used the version with a built in magnetic filter. I put new flex lines in at the same time. No problems.
NAPA advertises a "super heavy duty" reman version which i believe is the saginaw pump set up to mount in place of the Ford. I didn't go that route but may be worth checking into although I did hear that they are often not available.
NAPA advertises a "super heavy duty" reman version which i believe is the saginaw pump set up to mount in place of the Ford. I didn't go that route but may be worth checking into although I did hear that they are often not available.
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NAPA discontinued the saginaw converson pump. If you live in a small town you might get lucky, but otherwise everyone has been SOL on those NAPA pumps.
Normally it is Cardone 20-6244 which was discontinued around 2008, from what I gather NAPA followed suit in early 2010, but still had plenty in stock into well into 2011.
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Normally it is Cardone 20-6244 which was discontinued around 2008, from what I gather NAPA followed suit in early 2010, but still had plenty in stock into well into 2011.
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There's a company out there that sells the brackets to convert your engine to a standard saginaw pump. It's pricey, but it comes with everything, ...including the pump. Another member here put it on his truck. I don't remember who, though.
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HIOSilver told me about those brakets and he even posted a link. If I'm going to have to spend that much on the braket I'll just wait a year and use the ford pump till I get access to the cnc machine.
I think the general conclusion out there is that the Saginaw pump is the best and that's what should be gotten.
I think the general conclusion out there is that the Saginaw pump is the best and that's what should be gotten.
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Yep. That is the general concensus. Don't know that you would need a Cnc machine to make a power steering bracket. It would be handy, but not necessarily necessary.
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