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Well, that took too long...
Dear Tim,
My similiar experience, I can relate. The steering pump on my 1989 Blazer went. I got one from a junk yard. Find out that it's necessary to extract the pulley to get the old out, new on. Of course, it's winter time and snow on the ground. I did manage the pulley exchange, using a $30 puller from Advance Auto Parts and Battery. I'm sure I've still got the puller, but no clue where it is. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Tim Wescott" wrote in message ... Just to show that real metalworking discussion happens on this group, I'm happy to report that I took a pulley off a power steering pump today -- after much too much time. Problem: Swap-meet pump has brackets that don't fit, and a stud that some @#$% gorilla has apparently torched off. I spent about a year being discouraged by the whole project, thinking I was going to have to build brackets. All this so that I can announce to the world that I'm a wimp who needs power steering. (SWMBO says "power steering is a must". Doesn't she know that armstrong steering is manly? Doesn't she care? What does she mean she's 5' 2" and can barely reach the pedals -- doesn't she know that power steering on a '63 Suburban isn't ORIGINAL**???) But I was visiting my brother's storage shop a while back, and noticed that one of the old Chevy small blocks that he keeps for rebuildable cores has just exactly the right brackets to fit on the 327 that's in the old Suburban that I'm restoring. "Hey Karl -- can I have that there piece of junk that's hanging off your old engine*". The pulley's obviously been bent in a collision, but the bracketry -- ooh, hold me back. But I hit a snag. After happily bringing home the Pump That Will Fit The Engine, and assessing the situation, I decide I need to swap pulleys. I can't just put the swap meet pump into the good brackets because of the former owner, gorilla mechanic. So the pulleys have to be swapped. I'm encouraged by the fact that the poor old swap meet pump has a pulley that comes right off, no problem -- but then I try the Other One. Crap. Not only is it bent, but it's stuck and stuck good. What to do? RCM to the rescue! Solution: So, penetrating oil, bang lightly with a hammer (until I bung up the threads a bit -- oops, better stop now), more oil, try a gear puller (wow, those pulleys sure do bend easily!). Finally get around to the real deal today -- hit the pulley hub with a rosebud. I had to get that frigging thing up to heat almost to the point where it glowed. And I expected that it'd just go "BANG!" and toss my gear puller halfway across the room from relieved tension. Oh no. Put on the rosebud, get it up to heat -- "tick, tick". Put rosebud on other side "tick, tick, tick". Tighten gear puller, repeat -- half a dozen @#$% times. Finally it's off, and the gear puller does _not_ win the unintentionally self-propelled tool distance award. Gunner will yawn, and say that he has to do that at least once a week, and sometimes he has far worse to contend with. I'm sure he does -- but this was irritating enough for me. Anyway, now I have a power steering pump that'll fit my engine, and a crank pulley. Since the steering box is already on***, that means that I just have to figure out how to get hoses built, and I'll have power steering! Yay! Too bad the rest of the truck is a disaster****. Group involvement: All the times that someone said "Use Kroil, and if that doesn't work, bang on it, and if that doesn't work heat it up good an hot". All of which I knew, of course, but some people need the repetition to actually go out and do something. * Bargaining tip #1. Never, ever, look at something, say WHOA! THAT'S WHAT I NEED! and fall on the floor foaming at the mouth. Even if the owner is your brother. _Especially_ if the owner is _my_ brother. "I'll take that smelly piece of **** off your hands for free, Karl." is always the right approach to take with him. ** Alas, she knows that a 327 with a 4 barrel isn't original, either. *** And that's a saga in itself -- there's a kit for that, whose directions I followed and whose templates I trustingly used -- only to find that it puts the box at the wrong angle; So toss _that_ POS, and just keep the steering shaft adapter. Not all unworkable crap comes from China! **** The former owner -- the one who put in the 327, the Volkwagen van seats, and the radiator from god only knows what, was obviously convinced that he was a mechanical genius. I'm not so sure of that. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com Do you need to implement control loops in software? "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" was written for you. See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html |
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Well, that took too long...
Stormin Mormon wrote:
Dear Tim, My similiar experience, I can relate. The steering pump on my 1989 Blazer went. I got one from a junk yard. Find out that it's necessary to extract the pulley to get the old out, new on. Of course, it's winter time and snow on the ground. I did manage the pulley exchange, using a $30 puller from Advance Auto Parts and Battery. I'm sure I've still got the puller, but no clue where it is. The next time you need some special tool you don't have to buy it. Advance and Auto-Zone both have tool rental programs now. You basically go in, they get the tool off the shelf in the back, open it to make sure it's all there Then they charge you the price of the tool. When you return the tool in the same shape as you picked it up they return your money. Comes in handy for those oddball tools you might need once in 10 years. -- Steve W. |
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Well, that took too long...
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:32:14 -0500, "Steve W."
wrote: Stormin Mormon wrote: Dear Tim, My similiar experience, I can relate. The steering pump on my 1989 Blazer went. I got one from a junk yard. Find out that it's necessary to extract the pulley to get the old out, new on. Of course, it's winter time and snow on the ground. I did manage the pulley exchange, using a $30 puller from Advance Auto Parts and Battery. I'm sure I've still got the puller, but no clue where it is. The next time you need some special tool you don't have to buy it. Advance and Auto-Zone both have tool rental programs now. You basically go in, they get the tool off the shelf in the back, open it to make sure it's all there Then they charge you the price of the tool. When you return the tool in the same shape as you picked it up they return your money. Comes in handy for those oddball tools you might need once in 10 years. Came across this several years back, borrowed the store's tool worth $10, they required a $5 deposit. When I asked "what happens if I don't bring it back", the answer was "you got yourself a bargain." Is it any wonder all their loaners were in the original packaging? Gerry :-)} London, Canada |
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