360 swapped Ram 50

rumblefish360 said

DUDE! Your my new HERO!
That’s funkin awesome!

You made your own engine mounts, got it in and up and running, Ohhhhhhhhh!!!!!

1 question! Where the power steering pump was ....
where did you get that mounted idler pulley. I’d like to delete my P/S pump since it has no use in my manual steering car.

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I switched from a 7 rib belt to a 6 rib because I needed the extra clearance. So the part number will be for 6 rib pulleys and belt.

The P/S idler is part number Gates 36329. I had to machine down the spacer 10mm.

I needed a smaller diameter non-ribbed pulley between the P/S and alt for belt clearance. You can see from the photo of the belt routing there is little clearance. Smooth pulley is part number ACDelco 38006.

Belt is 6 rib x 72.5 part number Bando 6PK1765

You could possibly loose the P/S idler all together and swap out the smooth idler between the water pump and alternator to a ribbed pulley. I was concerned there wouldn't be enough belt wrapped around the water pump in that configuration. I figured better safe than sorry.

Had to remove 10mm of length from spacer.




Smaller pulley.


Possible belt configuration, but it's quite possible that the water pump may slip.