Aligning Waterpump, generator and Power steering pump pulleys

 

After getting my hand on the correct power steering bracket EDB-33559-A it was time to line up the pulleys to each other. First of water pump pulley to first row on the damper.
My puller was to small so had to take the pump of and get it to another workshop I can access.

Finally the correct P/S pump bracket arrived

 

Finally the correct bracket arrived to Sweden. I bought it from a nice gentlemen David Brown on a Facebook group, from USA. Unfortunately the Covid-19 had struck the shipping industry so no Airfreight was available. It was 1 day to late to for the first container shipment (apparently only one a month) to it sat in Chicago for a month LOL. Well their is one thing I have learned restoring a Ford made vehicle in Sweden is "PATIENT". Ordered it around 5th May 2020 got the delivery 5th of August 2020. 

Steering column painted and final assembly

Steering column redesigned with coupling inside the tube. Painted and ready for assembly

Steering column, some assembly before paint.

Made some guide lines and measurements to figure out where to drill the small side hole for the grease fitting. 

Got some Steering column parts from a friend

My design intent below and the manufactured bushing and lockring above.

Some steering column prep work

Distance between Cab floor and CPP 400 Power steering box top is 120 mm. Gear shift linkage need 90 mm, so the coupling needs to be mounted inside the column tube.

Power steering pump, final assembly

Power steering pump, paint

After one coat of 2 component polyurethane

Power steering pump assembly

Eaton pump, assessing the part and cleaning

Started out by blocking of all of the ports to prevent the majority of the blasting media to enter the housing halfs.

After media blast (glass beads)

Power steering pump tear down

This pump was, as you can read on the the erlier posts in the pump subject, sold as a refurbished pump.......well I guess I just got fooled or I have a twisted definition of the word refurbished. The seller seems to think that refurbished is the same thing as a wirebrush and some rattlecan paint.
Well i saw the signs early and as I wait for some other parts i took the opportunity to take it appart to see what condition it´s in.
I had made some research on the Eaton power steering pump on the www and found out that it most probably would be a rotor roller design  (the most common), The information about these pumps are quite scarce, but I found some link

Strangers Site . com
Steering rebuilders and Truck parts inc

So from the first link I found out some of the weak spots for these pump to look out for during the teardown.

These where the only markings I could find on the whole pump. But I haven been able to dechiper the code despite the second link I found.

Steering column modifications, design stage.

I was inspired by a thread at FTE to try and make my own solution.

To combine the CPP 400 series power steering box and the stock steering column with manual shift .

As I dont have the cab mounted to the frame yet I didn´t know the distance between the end of the output shaft of the steering box and the floor of the cab, so I asked a friend of mine to take some measurements on his truck, and that turned out to be about 90mm or just above 3.5". The manual gear shift assembly at the end of the column is just about the same length 90mm or 3.5", then it seems that it will be quite tight, with the shifter arms to move freely. So I figure I need a little bit more room than 90 mm

Revision 1

The brown part is supposed to be a bronze bushing with 2 o-rings. The coupler is the flaming river FR1944. The sleeve outside the coupler and to the left of the bronze bushing is a lock ring that uses the existing set screws of the coupler. This is made to lock the steering shaft inside the column tube. The set screws is locked by a hex nut.

Mounting of CPP power steering box

I love good quality products....I certainly hope the steering box itself is better engineered than the distance tubes and the choice of bolt lengths.Those small tubes will put a lot of stress to the framerails. 

So I figured I needed to make an own distance plate, also it seems like I haveto go for metric on the bolts......bummer.

Steering column dissmantling

As i am planing on using a CPP power steering box and wants to keep the stock column with manual gera shift linkage I need to do some modifications. First of all I need to take everything appart.

Stock -56 steering column with manual shift linkage.

Drag link assembly

Time has come to assemble the drag link

HD tie rod assembly.

 
Pretty straight forward, grease up the threads, put the locking nut on both sides balljoints, Just keep in mind the left and right thread. And then bolt it down to the underside of the spindle arms. Then torque it down. Done!! It is so much fun to work with good clean, gone over parts. Its just like a BIG lego for grown ups.

Eaton power steering pump check up

Some of the Eaton power steering pump prepped fore zinc plating. This pump was bought on Ebay  conditioned as refurbished.... Refurbished my ass, I could stretch to some wirebrush and some rattle can paint. Well the word refurbished is open for enterpretation. I should have asked. I am a bit wiser until next time.

Eaton power steering pump

Look what the delivery guy, turned up with today!!! all the way from states, rebuilt and with the correct T-bird bracket and everything. This will be placed on the shelf until I have a finished chassie and engine.