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Old Oct 24, 2008 | 06:54 PM
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I picked up my p/s pulley today from the junkyard, it is from a 88 Ford E-150 with the straight 6. It is significantly smaller than the GM piece. 88-96 Ford van pulleys should be the same.


Ford pulley is the dirty one






GM pulley, not pressed on


Ford Pulley

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Old Oct 24, 2008 | 07:21 PM
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Awesome tip!
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Old Oct 24, 2008 | 11:43 PM
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I know people kept saying this would work, but I ended up ditching my truck accessories for vette ones.

Thanks much for the pictures!
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Old Oct 25, 2008 | 12:48 AM
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Good find, what about the Belt, did the stock belt work or was it too long. did you measure how much short of a belt might work ?
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Old Oct 25, 2008 | 09:01 AM
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As far a belt length I do not know, mine is different anyhow with the blower.
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Old Oct 25, 2008 | 09:56 AM
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Thanks for trying this. It looks like there is no way the GM pulley would fit. This just saved me a ton of money.
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Old Oct 25, 2008 | 09:36 PM
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whats the part number on the ford pulley?
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Old Oct 26, 2008 | 11:32 AM
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i like the ideal of the power steering pulley, on the g body with motor mount plates from speed and performances the motor seats as far back but the power steering pulley still hit the gear box due to being so big in size, the ford pulley so solve my problem, thank for the information
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Old Oct 26, 2008 | 12:37 PM
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ford part number on the pulley ? thanks for the great tip I may need to do this one day.
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Old Oct 26, 2008 | 09:46 PM
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What is the GM pully off of? I want to cut the drag off of mine and do not really need it at speed so the smaller one would be a bonus.

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Old Oct 26, 2008 | 10:00 PM
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a trailblazer has a smaller PS pulley then the truck style.......ill look to see the diffrence tomorrow, but it looks about to be the same size as the ford pulley.....either way thats a great find
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Old Oct 26, 2008 | 11:40 PM
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NICE find...
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Old Oct 27, 2008 | 03:22 PM
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I needed a pulley to clear the power steering box of my 77 Camaro. Wound up using a mid-90's pressed-on 5.0 Mustang pulley and a shim for the pump. This would have been good info back in August! :-)
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Ford p/n is E7UA 3D673 FB

Us A-body guys need to get together and make the A-body sticky they already said we could, maybe just make a A-body info sticky and post links into it??

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Old Oct 27, 2008 | 07:43 PM
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yeah we need a sticky with all the info. i have done alot of searching to try and get all the info i can on the a-body swap. also a list of all the places that mod the wiring harnesses would be nice to. so far it looks like im using edelbrocks plates and headers, this ford pulley since im planning on a 5.3/4l60e swap and a kwikperformance ac relocation bracket. also a for sale/wanted section for conversion parts would be nice.

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Old Oct 27, 2008 | 10:29 PM
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I have used the BRP mounts w/ an lq4 from an 03 van. My Ac and power steering both cleared just fine in my 71 chevelle. Using the 4l80E also...

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Old Oct 28, 2008 | 04:28 PM
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Definitely need to do an A Body sticky. It would be great to not have to search for little bits and pieces of information all over the website.

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Old Oct 28, 2008 | 04:49 PM
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great find. i ended up grinding the steering box down to make it work with stock pulley. but cannot shange belt unless jack the motor up. will be doing this mod in the future.
this is on a g body but same idea
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Old Oct 29, 2008 | 09:45 AM
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great find.
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Old Oct 29, 2008 | 11:47 PM
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great find! hopefully it will work on my 64 malibu 5.3/4l65e. i have the motor and tranny in but i have been stuck on accs.
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