Posted in the 335 forum, but someone might have done it here.

Does anyone have a picture of how the power steering pump mounts in a late 70s lincoln with the 400? I have the pump and bracket, and an idea, but a picture would be nice. Especially the tensioner part. The sag. pump would be nice on the truck with the plow hangin' on it.

 

I can take a pic of the ps bracket and pump set up on a 79 F250 with a 400 if that would help. Id bet its the same.

 

not the same. I have a good picture of a '78 f250 with a 400 sitting in the driveway. Not a sag pump.

Next question, how straight up and down does the pump have to be?

 

We must be talking about different things then. The big canned ham sag pumps to my knowledge were not available until the 80s on the 3/4-1ton vans and some heavy trucks (F600s 700s) earlier than that. Most of the 77.5-79 F250/350s had the mini sag pumps like what I was talking about. I dont think lincolns had that big **** pump. Why would they?

 

'78 lincoln continental IIRC 400cid

 

Are you sure the Lincoln that pump came from had a 400 and not a 460? All of the saginaw pumps ive seen in the old Lincolns were on 460s.

Also, all of the Lincolns ive ever taken the 460s out of had A/c and they had one huge bracket that mounted the sag pump and a/c pump together, and they wont fit the 400. I'll see if I can get a pic or two of what I'm talking about and put it in my gallery tomorrow night at work.

Yeah the old lincolns started using saginaw pumps around 1970 on the 460s, the two previous years they had the crank mounted pump. They mounted over the crank where the spacer is used on the later engines and bolted to the timing chain cover.

IIRC, some Lincolns had hydroboost systems too.

Hope this helps, Dave.

 

Is this box the same as yours? This one came off a 85 E350 box van with a 460. The bracket was a big 8"x12" plate.

 

I'm sure it was a 400. The block is on an engine stand in my parents barn and the crank is in my truck. I'm thinking this pump was for a hydroboost because of the extra hose. It has been a few years since I took it off the car.


Haven't taken the bracket off the pump. Didn't look to hard at the front.

 

The 400 in my 78 came from a 79 Lincoln. Looked just like the one 2classics posted. The other lines are for the hydroboost brakes. Unfortunately I took it off and put the plastic res Ford pump on it when the Saginaw pump took a crap. So I don't have anything to take pics of for you. Sorry. Don't even remember exactally how it went together. I will see if I have time to find the old pump and see if it has the bracket still attached. It might help you.

BTW I took that hydroboost res off and put a regular res from a Saginaw pump from a Dodge. Worked good.

Steve