Well my power steering bracket broke off and i think its cause my belt tension is too tight. Is there a way to loosen the tension a bit? My 3.1 has smog pump and ac compressor delete. its broken before but the other bolt that bolts into the head held it in place. i switched out the broken bracket but this time the bracket snapped and the bolt that bolts to the head also broke off the head so i have to extract that bolt. So once i extract the bolt that goes to the head and get a new bracket on there im wondering if theres a way to loosen the tension a bit so the belt wont be soo tight so i can avoid another broken bracket.

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just did some digging and seems i need the rear steel brace that goes behind the ps pump to header. anyone have one let me know. im gonna try the junkyard.

 

Can somebody send me a pic of the bracket behind the power steering pump. I cant seem to find a pic of what it looks like. Or anybody have an idea on how I can reinforce the power steering pump so it wont break on me again. Thanks

 

Number 26 in the pic, looks like a stamped steel piece....

RBob.

 

Dam it looks like that bracket goes on the exhaust manifold stud and mine doesn't even have the stud dam. That's another problem I have . Do you have an actual picture? seems like that bracket is out of the question.If i do find the bracket maybe it will hold with just the bottom bolt. I need to find another way to reinforce that bracket dam.