Type II power steering pump on an 87
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Type II power steering pump on an 87
Has anyone converted to a type II power steering pump on an 87 before? If so, what pump, pulley and bracket did you use?
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Re: Type II power steering pump on an 87
I have on an ‘86. I got a tough stuff type II pump and v-belt pulley from speedway, used their aluminum block mount power steering pump bracket and a universal remote reservoir. Had a local hydraulic hose shop build a simple 14”-ish hose with a 90* bend at each end to adapt it to the box. I may have had to use an adapter to connect hose to gearbox but don’t remember. Super easy swap. If you want the pn’s I used I’ll have to do a bit of research to recall them. It’s a nice upgrade for appearance and weight most definitely but made the steering very light even with the smallest restrictor on the box.
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Car: 84 TA orig. 305 LG4 "H" E4ME
Engine: 334 SBC - stroked 305 M4ME Q-Jet
Transmission: upgraded 700R4 3200 stall
Axle/Gears: 10bolt 4.10 Posi w Lakewood TA Bars
Re: Type II power steering pump on an 87
Yes, I want to know also.
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Re: Type II power steering pump on an 87
Tuff Stuff TC pump PN 6175AL-4 is what I used, others will work.
Sweet Mfg v-belt PS pulley 310 30026. Whatever pulley works for you depending on your belt setup, needs to be a press-on type with a .662” bore though.
PSC power steering bracket MB05K
KRC 91510000 looks just like the one I’m using but I didn’t pay $96 for mine. I don’t remember what brand it was but it was significantly less money. I think I used PSC for this too.
For a v-belt setup use Gates 7355 belt.
The pressure hose was made by a local hydraulic shop with the 90* 10AN female fittings because this pump outputs 1200psi and I made the bracket holding the reservoir to the cylinder head. Easy to make though
Sweet Mfg v-belt PS pulley 310 30026. Whatever pulley works for you depending on your belt setup, needs to be a press-on type with a .662” bore though.
PSC power steering bracket MB05K
KRC 91510000 looks just like the one I’m using but I didn’t pay $96 for mine. I don’t remember what brand it was but it was significantly less money. I think I used PSC for this too.
For a v-belt setup use Gates 7355 belt.
The pressure hose was made by a local hydraulic shop with the 90* 10AN female fittings because this pump outputs 1200psi and I made the bracket holding the reservoir to the cylinder head. Easy to make though
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Re: Type II power steering pump on an 87
I keep getting error messages while trying to upload my pics but it’s really straight forward on installation. Also know that the pump has a 16x1.5mm o-ring outlet port so you’ll need an adapter to AN if using this particular pump and an identical adapter on the gearbox. Tuff Stuff has some with 10AN pressure port fittings. The reservoir had AN ports on it so put AN to hose barb adapters to simplify the plumbing on the return and suction lines. Lastly, I did have to drill out one of the threaded mounting holes to run a bolt through to the block mount.
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Re: Type II power steering pump on an 87
Might it be from a 2004 Jeep? The pics I get from searching for a 2005 look like they feed from below.
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Car: 84 TA orig. 305 LG4 "H" E4ME
Engine: 334 SBC - stroked 305 M4ME Q-Jet
Transmission: upgraded 700R4 3200 stall
Axle/Gears: 10bolt 4.10 Posi w Lakewood TA Bars
Re: Type II power steering pump on an 87
Those pictures are worth 1000 words. See how much cleaner that pump is than the A can? And I bet it's easily adjustable too.
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Re: Type II power steering pump on an 87
TORN has me interested in his belt setup! I ran across somewhere that steel factory pullies have about a 400hp/6k rpm limit and I’ve well exceeded one and right at the other. Or is there any real validity to the hp limit? I could see how there is but never heard of anyone blowing their factory steel pullies apart either.
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Car: 84 TA orig. 305 LG4 "H" E4ME
Engine: 334 SBC - stroked 305 M4ME Q-Jet
Transmission: upgraded 700R4 3200 stall
Axle/Gears: 10bolt 4.10 Posi w Lakewood TA Bars
Re: Type II power steering pump on an 87
I don't buy it. Back in the day, 283 & 302 SB Chevys turned 8000+ rpm with steel pulleys. All GM ever did was make the 302 pulleys "deep groove" to help keep from throwing the belts off.
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Re: Type II power steering pump on an 87
Will the stock pulley fit on the 4th gen Type II pump, it appears to be a 19mm pulley? Or does anybody know how to get the pressed in reservoir nipple out?
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