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Power steering won t work with "new" 440 for my 73, what options..

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Guys, in removing the locked up 440 in my 73 and having a 67 440 replacement engine ready to swap, I noticed the 67 motor does not have a pivot boss for the power steering brackets to bolt to. The later engine has the boss , drilled and tapped, and the older has no boss at all. Are there other brackets available to let me adapt the 73 pump to the older engine....not sure what to look for...thanks...
 
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Do you have a Federal pump? I had the same, or similar problem with my '73 Charger w/400. '72 replacement engine lacked a drilled and tapped boss. I found a lawn mower blade that looked like it would make a good bracket, and it did.
Before that I made a bracket out of a piece of flat steel, but it was flimsy.
 
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Thanks Guys, I am new at Mopar stuff but I believe my pump IS a Saginaw. The bracket from Borgeson appears to fit but I will need the check it out to see how it mounts and pivots. Aeronet, it looks like your homemade flat bar just bolts to a water pump bolt and makes a pivot point to where the engine boss would be....great idea. My engine is out and so is pump now and i will do a fit up and see what works.... That complete Borgeson kit sure looks temping but what I need is all out of stock.....with all this time off, folks must be doing long wanted upgrades....thanks..
 
There is an offset. I wanted to keep it original and I wasn't able to bend a thick enough piece of steel that would keep the pump from being pulled forward by the pulley.
I had considered converting it to a Saginaw unit. Bouchillon, I think, sells everything you need to install a Saginaw pump. But, one day while I was looking for a thicker piece of steel to replace the thin, flimsy one I was using I saw an old lawnmower blade that had the right offset.
I had almost forgotten all about it 'til I saw your post.
One advantage of the Saginaw setup is that you can use the large oil filter.
 
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