Power Steering Option
10-03-2012, 04:52 PM
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Power Steering Option
I read or was told that power steering was not avalible on a 365 H/P Vet. If so, was P/S avalible on 340,350 or 375 H/P Vets.
10-03-2012, 05:01 PM
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My 66 L79 (350hp) has power steering - also has A/C. I also read somewhere in the past about an issue with the 365hp and power steering but cannot located or remember the article. Someone on here has the right information! 
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10-03-2012, 05:25 PM
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no power steering for the 365, and 375. they used a larger 5 quart oil pan that did not allow the PS relay rod
10-03-2012, 05:43 PM
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The 365 hp version had a six quart oil pan. Don't know about the F/I, but I assume the same. Other hp 327's had a standard five quart oil pan.
10-03-2012, 07:37 PM
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I thought it was 4 quarts in the pan a 1 quart oil filter for a total of a 5 quart system. The same with the solid lifter motors with a larger oil pan that held one more quart
10-03-2012, 08:56 PM
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That's correct - power steering wasn't available with either the 365hp or 375hp engines due to the 6-quart oil pan, and there was no way to order either one of those engines with a 5-quart pan.
10-03-2012, 08:57 PM
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Here's the post where JohnZ states the 365 had the 6 qt oil pan.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c1-a...hlight=oil+pan
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c1-a...hlight=oil+pan
10-03-2012, 09:37 PM
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I am just wondering if some one is confusing a total oil system volume verse just the oil pan volume. since I don't have any 65 GM books what do they say for capacity's
10-03-2012, 09:50 PM
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Possibly it's semantics, but the 365 oil pan has always been identified as the 6 quart oil pan as in this ad below. It doesn't really matter as long as you get the larger pan, and I think the original question as to why no power steering is offered on the 365 was answered either way. The oil pan was in the way.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...5rI6PlCZbkj32A
Maybe we could just call it the oil pan for the 6 quart system.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...5rI6PlCZbkj32A
Maybe we could just call it the oil pan for the 6 quart system.
10-04-2012, 04:11 PM
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That's why I normally refer to them as the 5-quart (system) pan and the 6-quart (system) pan.
10-04-2012, 04:41 PM
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So we were all right.