Thread: Power Steering Troubles 48'ford drop top

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Originally Posted by jmiicustomz

I am working under the constraints i have been given as it is a 76 yr old lady's car and her brother was building it before he died. she is requiring me to use the parts he ordered for it so that it is how he wanted it. to beat that it is a totally finished car otherwise with a 10k+ paint job

Understand. OK, so your best bet at this point is to do some research and find out what pressure each pump produced, then restrict the pressure from the GM pump so that it matches the Ford pump and doesn't overpower the Ford box. Some of the hot rod shops such a Heidt's make a pressure reducer, but I think it's normally for the MII rack. The W&S Ford box may take a different pressure, I don't know.

Not being known for my diplomacy and finesse, I'd call the old girl up and tell her that her idiot brother took the "me too" approach after reading too many hot rod magazines and screwed the pooch with incompatible components. I'd tell her that the Ford pump needs to be mounted on the motor and that I would have to make brackets to do it. Actually, if there is no known valving that will work off the shelf, mounting the Ford pump may be the cheapest way around the problem by the time you add up your labor going through several combinations trying to get it to work. Just my thoughts on it.