I know there’s a lot of posts out there about this but I can’t find a solution for mine yet. I have a 68-70 block, serial # 395558 2. I was told there are 2 different styles of power steering and alternator brackets, can anyone tell me which brackets I need? The brackets I have are causing the P/S pump to sit back from the water pump pulley about 1-1.5 cm. My P/S belt shredded and alternator one snapped because of this. I have both spacers on the P/S pump, and don’t know of any that I need on the alternator. Thanks for the help.

 

Most of the time it's the mismatch of the water pump (there are three different heights) and the pulleys that go with it, not the alternator or PS brackets. Do you have AC? That makes a difference. There are a ton of posts on getting the right pulley set up. See if this one might help you, or do a search on "correct pulleys" and I bet you find something you need.

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...e-pulleys.html

 

I have never heard of that, unless the person was referring to the early and late brackets (late meaning mid-70s and up). From what I know, all of the 68-72 brackets are the same. Unless the person was meaning AC vs non-AC alternator brackets, then of course they are different as they go on opposite sides of the engine.

This won't help you any other than correcting minor mis-information, but that block number was used from 68-76.

 

 

 

Your 395558 2 is a standard 350. If you could post a few pics of you alignment
problems, we may have better luck helping you solve them. Welcome to CO.

 

We'll start with the usual problem first.


Do you have the two spacers correctly installed between the PS pump bracket and the block?

 

 

 

That looks like the spacer on the side of the block is too thick to me. If you can see that it lines up with the water pump, but gets worse the further out it gets, that's what it tells me.

 

I'm not very familiar with 350 set-ups but you should be able to use all pulleys and brackets from one engine be it a 350 or 455 for your needs. I am having a hard time telling what exactly you have going on there. The alt bracket may be a mis-match?

Hopefully these pics will help you out some. These are from a 455 I have sitting in the shop. But they are the same pulleys & brackets that you should have for yours, H/D cooling or A/C set-up with the longer snout water pump.

 

 

 

I was a little successful in getting the pulleys more aligned with each other by putting a washer (about 1 cm thick or so) on the top water pump bolt that the P/S pulley sits on. It pushed out the side of the P/S (left) that was too far in a little bit...the whole alignment is still slightly off, but definitely better than how it was.