Gentlemen
have seen a lot of older post on this but no solid solutions. Rebuilding a 1979 F150 6.6l V8 400 4x4 and completely destroyed the power steering pump pulley when trying to take it off the old pump. Have literally spent the last month trying to find a replacement with no luck. Bronco Graveyards 502 and Summit Racing’s equivalent don’t even come close to lining up, even tried putting it on backwards to pull it in closer to the pump but that was off by over an inch as well. I live in NJ and greatly appreciate any suggestions, I’m running out of junkyards to wander through.

 

POWER STEERING PUMP, Pulley and BRACKET 351M/400 351m 400 | eBay One like this?



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The truck has been frankenstein’d Long before we got it so the ps pump is not even close to what we just took off but I don’t really care as long as the pulley fits. I just bought one of the cheap cardone ps reman pumps but can not find a pulley other than the one I destroyed taking off the old pump

 

Please if you can post a picture of what you have if it was Frankensteined it may not be from a truck

 

I agree with you, I’m starting to think the pulley that was on the truck is from a John Deere. Leaning towards scrapping the whole thing and going with a Saginaw from wild horses. Age old, took the cheap route to save $100 that cost me $300
ill post pic tomorrow. Thanks

 

I couldn’t wait until the morning, this is keeping me up nights. Pic of the ps pump and pulley that came off the old pump

 

The pump in your pic is a Ford CII pump, used for many many years in cars and trucks. The part # varies by length of filler neck, etc. Rock Auto lists it as one of the pumps used on your truck. The other is the Saginaw pump which has a steel reservoir and a long thin filler neck, with a dipstick like a short engine oil dipstick. If you had a serpentine belt setup (yeah, not there in 1979), you would have no trouble finding a pulley. My guess is that there were relatively few vehicles using the CII pump with a V-belt drive, as compared to millions of CII pumps with serpentine belt drive pulley on them.

The proper puller to remove the pulley slips over the front "disc" on the pulley that projects outward, then a forcing screw goes down into the center of the pump shaft and pushes relative to that pulley disc, and the pulley comes off without damage. Auto parts stores, at least they used to, had the pulley remover so they could sell pumps to people. You would bring your pump attached to bracket with pulley on, into the store, they'd pull it off for you. The new or rebuilt pump usually came with a cheap tool to press the pulley back on. Needed to wrap a piece of old belt around the pulley and clamp belt in vise so pulley wouldn't turn when re-installing pulley onto pump shaft.

 

I did the Wild Horses Saginaw conversion and love it. That's definitely my suggestion.

Don't roll your eyes at this just yet. You can get a machine shop to make a pulley. And the right shop can do it inexpensively. I've made a couple on my lathe. I found a big piece of aluminum stock at a scrap yard. Still have most of it. It cuts easily with a band saw, table saw, or battery hacksaw. Since it was very close to the diameter I needed, it only took about 45 minutes to machine it, then 10 minutes to broach the keyway. Shazam, new pulley.

 

Torky, Ranger
Thank you gigantically, you are both a wealth of information. I was trying to keep her as close to original as possible but I think I’ve met my match, going to the Saginaw pump. Started this rebuild 2yrs ago with my boy who is now off serving with the USMC. I guess as long as he is able to hand the truck down to his eventual son/daughter all the frustrations are worth it. Keep your eyes out for me I’m sure I’ll be back here shortly with the next thing I cant figure out.