It looked promising so I decided I would give it a whirl as it would allow me to hook everything up using the bronco's pressure hose to the Saginaw pump until I could source a proper hose to work with the Saginaw's fitting.

After a bit of thought I decided to pull the fitting off the rear of the Saginaw and see if it would swap around with the one that came off the bronco. The bronco used a double flare fitting, the van had some kind of an o-ring fitting. So I pulled my pump and bracket off and snaked the pressure hose out, and this is where the problems began.įirst, I noticed that the van's steering box and the Bronco's box had different threads for the pressure line input into the box. The parts came off the van so easy (less than 20 minutes I had it all ready to go) I decided I would try and see how they would go onto the bronco. I know I have read in several places on forums the gas v8 v belt brackets should interchange with the IDI.

I have been talking with Jonathan (Ford F834) and he had been kind enough to send me a gas V8 bracket that was thought to work with pump and pulley from my van. The van is a 1983 (have to find build date) with a 300 I6. I went over to the parts van I had and rapidly removed all the parts I had thought I would require. Yesterday, I decided I would finally start on the swap on my bronco.

The saga begins