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: need advice with pulley conversion


silver 66
Dec 22nd, 04, 11:24 PM
merry christmas to all, and to all this question. i have a big block that has a 3 groove water pump pullet, the outermost groove is smaller than the other 2 grooves and runs the power steering pump, will converting to a 2 groove wp pulley and running the ps pump off of the larger diameter crank pulley foul up my original style power steering pump.

1966_L78
Dec 24th, 04, 1:16 PM
Not sure if what year yours is, or if the pulley are stock, but I'll assume 1966...

But NO, 1966 (and I think most years) ran the Power steering ONLY off the front of the crank(third groove)... The P/S belt did NOT go on the waterpump pulley at all...

The smaller third groove water pump pulley is usually for the smog pump (I think for most applications)... And I think that belt only used the WP pulley (and NOT the crank pulley)...