Posted by Milo in Pa [162.158.78.85] on Sunday, October 07, 2018 at 22:13:42 :
In Reply to: still looking for a better ps steering pump for helitool posted by mannyc [162.158.62.126] on Friday, October 05, 2018 at 17:53:10 :
If you have a good welder/fabricator in your area you can have a bracket made. I traced from the flat piece with holes that bolts to the engine and the flat piece that would fit the saginaw pump on a piece of paper and had the tracings laser cut from steel $30.00 got a piece of pipe from local hardware $6.50 After getting the head mount piece welded to the pipe on top and bottom I bolted it to the engine to figure the right length needed for the belts to line up as I had the flat metal piece bolted to the pump I had to use 2 spacers on the pump as the 4 mountings are not flat. After getting it all squared up and figuring where to weld the pipe to the pump mount welded I had it welded in place. $20.00 for the 2 welds from a professional welder. I bolted everything up and it worked good but was just a very little out of line and would probably been ok but I wanted it perfect. So I elongated the head bolts a little the way it needed to go and it lined up perfect. A little messing around and getting it made but it was all during the restoration process so it fit right in with all the other things needing done one at a time to get it done the way I wanted
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