need help almost got my car on road but....

tedsweet said
get a different lenght belt to caue pump to move some?

I'd look into that first.

What would be the harm in cutting away some of that ear. Use a grinder to make a nice radiused relief in it.

Then I'd do that. But use good judgement.

I have a saginaw pump with the the cast iron water pump and it is closer to the block. When I switched to a 73 K-member, I still had plenty of clearance. But I was still using 68 Brackets.