power steering hose question

Sounds like you have about the parts mix as I do. My '72 Duster had manual steering, but with a 4spd that was too hard to manage in tight situations (If it was an automatic I'd probably just have gone to fast ratio manual ala Firm Feel.

What I did was go to a - then existing, about 10 years ago - junk yard and got the Saginaw PSP and all the brackets from an early 80s Dip/Fury V8. But that left me with the hose problem you have. I went to the Parts store and got the closest match I could find (don't remember what it was) and rebent it (carefully, very carefully bending and heating, bending and heating until I got it where I wanted and using a tube bender to make sure no kinks developed). I would not recommend doing this though.

I saw a car that had the same setup as mine at a local show a couple years ago. I took good pictures of the installation and the hose especially and tried for a replacement. The only place that was able to help was

http://www.bouchillonperformance.com/BPEPowerSteering.asp

... They got me the exact fit hose. Just one problem though. The Saginaw pump that "this" new hose was designed to mate to had a different fitting than the pump end of the hose. Apparently, although the pump is virtually identical to the original pump that the hose was designed for, the fitting in the later years changed on the pressure side of the pump.

So I have this 'perfect fit' hose that is still in the box. I keep meaning to get back in touch with bouchillon, but I just don't get around to it, and my back is injured which prevents me from leaning over to do the job now anyway. Probably just either needs an adapter on the either the hose or the pump, or at worst I will get the correct fit pump.

But if I were you, I'd give those folks a call. Armed now with all this info you will likely get it right. Check out the link above.