flyarmyguns
Registered User
I'm hoping to hear back from some wrecking yards soon. This pulley shouldn't be THAT difficult to find...
When you look at the vacuum pumps for the different years the difference seems to be the nipple orientation of the pump.
It's not quite the same thing, but here's my experience. I'm currently running a PSD vacuum pump on my Blue truck. It was about $40 cheaper than one for a IDI and I was pretty strapped for cash at the time since I just had to replace the lifters in my recently overhauled 7.3. I can confirm that the nipple is at a different angle. I cheated by cutting the nipple off the old pump and attaching it to the new pump with a short piece of 3/8" fuel line thus making a "double nipple". The biggest issue was that the shaft in the drive unit was a larger diameter on my old pump. In order to get my pulley onto the PSD pump, I had to reuse the drive unit from my old pump. It worked out great for a friend since he had a bearing go out in hid drive unit on hie 95 PSD. I gave him the mew drive unit that I had, he switched them, and it worked great until he sold the truck a few years later.Another thought, for the people who have changed from v belt to serpentine. Did you change the vacuum pump or just the pulley?
One note for future readers, get a power steering pulley remover/installer and use it. Tim you got through it. But many have ruined a perfectly good, or worse yet, new pulley by prying/pressing on or off. I am guilty of this too, so learn from my mistake. Buy, rent, borrow a power steering pump removal/installation tool for this job. Cold/Hot thing worked for Tim, perhaps try it, if not get the tool!