Serpentine PS pulley issue

[mopardude318]

Small block. 1970-up brackets and everything. I have march pulleys but the steering pump pulley don’t seem right. It’s all the way on but don’t line up, needs like more offset or somethin.
All the brackets are correct for the year. What gives?

I have this pulley:
March Performance 535 March Performance Power Steering Pulleys | Summit Racing

 

[mopardude318]

Maybe their pulley doesn’t work with stock PS bracket. Maybe I need their pump bracket. I’ll call them in the AM.

 

[mopardude318]

Called em. They’re no help. Taking this off and going back to stock, for now. I’ll deal with it later.

 

[mopowers]

It almost looks like if those brackets were straight instead of having those bends in them that it would line up.

 

[j_anderson]

can the pully be reversed? possible that its on the pump backwards?

 

[mopardude318]

It almost looks like if those brackets were straight instead of having those bends in them that it would line up.

I think they’re shaped like that to clear the pump. I have 2 other sets of the same brackets. The pulley is wrong I think, I found another PN for a different pulley from March Perf, but no one has it in stock, not even March themselves. They gotta make it. So I’m gonna hold off on these for now and revert back to stock, for now…until I wanna deal with this.

 

[mopardude318]

can the pully be reversed? possible that its on the pump backwards?

I tried that, the way the pulley is machined for the pump shaft, won’t work.