Posted by chris case on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 at 7:35PM :
In Reply to: Re: 1960 318 POLY POWER STEERING PUMP posted by MoparNorm on Monday, April 04, 2005 at 6:34PM :
Or was the water pump driven off the back of the generator belt? Inlet or outlet location is not an indicator of direction of spin. Unless you had a marine engine as some of those turn the wrong way, but I don't think they used power steering on marine applications. Chrysler did use a 'self tightening' PS pump. It was looose and didn't have enough travel to tighten it up solid with the proper belt. Pivot was within the diameter of a large pulley, so the harder it pumped, the tighter the belt got....in theory.
And, did Chrysler call thier tall block a tall block , or a wide block? But that was a big block variation. Taller block, longer rods, fewer degrees of rod rotation, less wear to small end? GM did the same in 454's. Ford's Mercury 410 used shorter pistons, longer rods than 428 to accomplish the same...oooops, sorry, off base from 318.
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