67/68/69 cuda dilemma
Part of my mock up is to figure out how I want to route these lines past the power steering pump. So I bolted it up. The water pump, the pulleys and brackets i will use are all 1974 vintage off a 74 dart. The pump pressure side hose hits the LH motor mount support on the K frame.
I come to find out after looking at a bunch of hoses on rock auto, that the hose on my power steering pump is a 76 Aspen/Volare V8 hose for a car with air pump. This seems to fit the best off the back of the pump. I will cut and mod the K frame hopefully making it look like a factory deal so the hose fits. You can see the silver sharpie for the proposed cut and reweld. It may not end up being that drastic depending how the new hose fits in the back of the pump.
On the steering box end, normally the fitting is a male, and the hose has a female fitting. That was changed around 1973. My box was rebuilt awhile ago, and had a tag stuck on it as such. It's a 67-72 small sector shaft box, but the rebuilder must have put a 73 up valve head on it, with an adaptor to use a 67-72 hose. I spun that off and my male threaded volare hose threaded right in.
Better to figure out all this **** now before it's all rebuilt, cleaned and painted.
Part of my mock up is to figure out how I want to route these lines past the power steering pump. So I bolted it up. The water pump, the pulleys and brackets i will use are all 1974 vintage off a 74 dart. The pump pressure side hose hits the LH motor mount support on the K frame.
I come to find out after looking at a bunch of hoses on rock auto, that the hose on my power steering pump is a 76 Aspen/Volare V8 hose for a car with air pump. This seems to fit the best off the back of the pump. I will cut and mod the K frame hopefully making it look like a factory deal so the hose fits. You can see the silver sharpie for the proposed cut and reweld. It may not end up being that drastic depending how the new hose fits in the back of the pump.
On the steering box end, normally the fitting is a male, and the hose has a female fitting. That was changed around 1973. My box was rebuilt awhile ago, and had a tag stuck on it as such. It's a 67-72 small sector shaft box, but the rebuilder must have put a 73 up valve head on it, with an adaptor to use a 67-72 hose. I spun that off and my male threaded volare hose threaded right in.
Better to figure out all this **** now before it's all rebuilt, cleaned and painted.