billmerbach

Getting my license in 12 days and I realized its super hard to make a 3 point turn in a car with a power steering steering box but no power steering

Octania

If you take the ps pump off and just leave "some" fluid in the steering gear and connect the one port to the other, it's a lot like manual steering. It can be done.

what-all are you missing? I cannot have it there in 3 days though

billmerbach

Oh ok gotcha and the 2 lower brackets

joe_padavano

No, it's worse than manual steering. I ran my first 68 442 this way back in my young and stupid days in the mid-1970s. The PS box has a quicker ratio than the manual box, so it's noticeably more difficult to turn at slow speeds, even with a bypass hose connecting the fluid ports. I drove this car to college in Cambridge, MA and regularly had to parallel park it in front of the dorm. Talk about an upper body workout!

billmerbach

Anyone?

billmerbach

Anyone I just need the 2lower backets and hoses

GStage1

Should be able to get a set-up from any GM car, RWD, that uses the Olds 307 in it......until you can find the correct set-up.

Did you check your local Craig's List and u-pull-it yards?

billmerbach

No one has it too far to drive to pull a part I'll spend more in gas than for the part I didn't think it would be so hard to get here

Mocephus

I MIGHT have what what you need, but I'm not sure if it'll work. I've got a pump and brackets from an 80s Olds 307. I can get some pics for you tomorrow.

billmerbach

Yes that would be great

Mocephus

OK, here's what I have. I need to double check my parts diagrams to see exactly what year this came off, but I believe it was an 84. What's in the pictures is all I have. Think you'll still need some spacers between two mounting points, if I remember correctly. This came off a running car, so the pump is still good, would recommend flushing some fluid through it, though.

$50 plus shipping. PM me if you want it. If you PM me before 6pm, I can get a shipping quote today, otherwise, it'll be tomorrow.

rocketraider

Keep in mind an 80s pump may have metric fittings...

Bill, you didn't say whether you have a pump or just need brackets to attach one to the engine.

billmerbach

Just the lower 2 brackets and the bolts to everything I have the pump and bracket the pump attached to

Mocephus

I'd love to help you but if I sell you just the lower bracket, I now have an incomplete setup, which I have much less chance of selling than a complete unit.

You'd also have a better chance of getting this to modification to work if you have everything that goes together, including the P.S. pump reservoir (which you can swap your pump internals into, since these are metric threaded hoses). Reason being, you say you need the 2 lower brackets. This setup was made with 1, so there might be fitment issues there with what you currently have. Also your pump/reservoir may have the return tube in a different location and could interfere with the newer style rear bracket. This whole assembly will bolt up to an Olds motor (with some spacers or washers added in) as-is. Also, as I mentioned in the last post, I don't have anything other than whats in the pictures. No other bolts or spacers, but that's just simple hardware.

Just my opinion, but I would rather have more options available when mixing parts, rather than less.