Serpentine PS pulley issue

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mopardude318

mopardude318

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Small block. 1970-up brackets and everything. I have march pulleys but the steering pump pulley don’t seem right. It’s all the way on but don’t line up, needs like more offset or somethin.
All the brackets are correct for the year. What gives?

I have this pulley:
March Performance 535 March Performance Power Steering Pulleys | Summit Racing

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Maybe their pulley doesn’t work with stock PS bracket. Maybe I need their pump bracket. I’ll call them in the AM.
 
Called em. They’re no help. Taking this off and going back to stock, for now. I’ll deal with it later.
 
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It almost looks like if those brackets were straight instead of having those bends in them that it would line up.
 
mopowers said:
It almost looks like if those brackets were straight instead of having those bends in them that it would line up.
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I think they’re shaped like that to clear the pump. I have 2 other sets of the same brackets. The pulley is wrong I think, I found another PN for a different pulley from March Perf, but no one has it in stock, not even March themselves. They gotta make it. So I’m gonna hold off on these for now and revert back to stock, for now…until I wanna deal with this. :)
 

Not sure if you ever figured this out but I also had an issue with the serpentine conversion. I purchased their brackets as well and I am only able to get a 4 rib belt because it doesn't quite line up. But mine is set back from the crank pulley not forward like in the picture.
 
mini said:
Not sure if you ever figured this out but I also had an issue with the serpentine conversion. I purchased their brackets as well and I am only able to get a 4 rib belt because it doesn't quite line up. But mine is set back from the crank pulley not forward like in the picture.
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No I never figured it out. I got the stock pulleys all gussied up and lookin pretty so I used those instead. These pulley manufacturers always change the size and diameters, just leave the damn things the same size and offset, but make em for a grooved belt. (Serpentine)
 
wow that's odd.... from the pic i would swear money that pulley is on backwards
 
mopardude318 said:
No I never figured it out. I got the stock pulleys all gussied up and lookin pretty so I used those instead. These pulley manufacturers always change the size and diameters, just leave the damn things the same size and offset, but make em for a grooved belt. (Serpentine)
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Yeah unfortunately that seems to be the thing. I noticed mine have more back spacing than what you showed.

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