Today i removed all power steering components, (which will be for sale.) Tomorrow i will be installing my manual steering adapter.. I came to realize that i still need a waterpump/crank tension pulley to take the place of the ps pump. how are people doing this? any pics?
Get pulleys from a non P/S car. Or put a spacer behind the water pump pulley so that it lines up with the alternator pulley, and get a belt to fit.
If you are running the stock V belts, the simplest thing to do is get a set of pulleys from a manual steering car, and then you can just run one belt from your crank to your water pump and alternator.
Go to my photobucket site and see what I did. The crank pulley is from a 351W with the outer two sheeves milled off, the water pump pulley is the stock one. I had to place a thick washer behind the atlernator pulley to line it up with the other two. I made the alternator bracket from 3/8 thick aluminum.
i installed one of thoes and it had a "sloppy feel". i removed it and put a drag link and pitman arm from a standard steer car (69.5).. JMO...Frank
i pulled the crank pully water pump pully and altornator pully off of a late 80's early 90's crown vic and i am now running a serpentine belt. you have to shim the altornator a little bit but it's not bad. you just have to tighten the belt like you do a v-belt. it's a pretty cool mod. i couldn't find the pullys here for a none power steering car. check this out http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=15052&highlight=crown+vic+pulleys
I have all those pulleys out in my garage, I've collected a few off different cars. After this weekend, I plan on doing that swap, and install an electric fan.
