Well, I had good and bad things happen tonight. First the good. Took delivery of some power steering parts from Hurst Tuff Stuff. Summit Racing retails their products. I always hold my breath when buying parts from a vendor that I have no experience with, but the OEM power steering brackets from GM and the rebuilt pumps around, are such crap, I decided to take a shot. First the good news. The power steering bracket for the C-3's,(TFF-6504B@$89.95, also available in chrome) is a beautiful thing!
Advertised as 1/4" steel, though a little shy of this, it is still a rugged and well engineered piece, with nice welding and a rock solid fit. It is set-up to mount to the two threaded holes on the driverside front of small block, and has an arm that takes support from the front motormount hole to provide a simple, well thoughtout platform for the Saginaw 3 series pump. I couldn't be happier to get rid of the poorly thought out and constructed GM set-up.
Now for my disappointment(although it is good news for 1975 thru 1982 owners). Tuff Stuff makes a couple Corvette specific power steering pumps that are the original Saginaw 3 design, and entirely new manufactured parts, and they are direct replacement for the originals. The pumps come complete, and even have a chrome cap/dipstick. Build quality on these pumps looked to be awesome and for the $119.95 price(#TFF-6178B)my guess is they are a great alternative to a rebuilt. So I figure since I have a cast pulley/keyed shaft pump, No problemo! I ordered a new press on stamped pulley, the new TFF-6178, and I'm in business. To my dismay, the two pulleys have such different offsets, that the new 1975 pump won't work with my pulley set-up.(Anyone need a new press-on pulley?) I plan to talk to a tech rep tommorrow, to see what the pump pressure on some of the keyed shaft models they offer, is. If I can find the right combo for my 1971 roadster, I will be back with the info for the earlier pulley set-ups.

 

Did you even call to find out if they make a pump that will work with a keyed shaft pulley? This information could be useful. thanks

 

Any pictures of either of these pumps?
Bee Jay

 

There are pictures at the Summit web site:

Bracket

Pumps

 

Willem,

I believe that the Saginaw pumps and boxes work on around 1200 p.s.i. and you should have a look at the Borgeson website as they also offer a range of pumps and brackets for Corvettes and other cars. www.borgeson.com.

I have several of their brackets and pumps and I have to say that they are quality items. Even the brackets to mount Saginaw pumps to Ford engines are works of art, check them out.

Regards from Down Under

aussiejohn

 

[QUOTE=aussiejohn;1573219169]Willem,

I believe that the Saginaw pumps and boxes work on around 1200 p.s.i. and you should have a look at the Borgeson website as they also offer a range of pumps and brackets for Corvettes and other cars. www.borgeson.com.

Don't want to run my mouth here, but if I am not mistaken, the Corvette pumps are application specific and set-up for Corvette use only, running on a much lesser PSI(900 if my memory serves me). If you decide to give one of the above mentioned pumps a try, you might want to check this out, or you could be setting yourself up for disappointment. If Jim Shea is available, he will know.

 

Willem,

Thanks for that caution, but I believe that this is not the case. Let's hope that Borgeson or Jim will chime in and set us both straight.

Regards from Down Under

aussiejohn