Black Magic on the Steering Committee

[Redwoodlse@xxxx]

The shop manual is totally useless in describing how to take the slack out of 
the power steering pump belts on 60 and newer Mopars. Mr. Merritt sells a 
"tool" for the adjustment of this Machiavellianistic device but includes zero 
instruction manual, assuming that we all know how to procede. We Dont! I have 
taken apart 6 of these and all of them are missing what must have been 
included as OEM, some sort of rubber gadget to stuff in the valley between the 
attaching bracket and the pump itself. If, indeed, there is a rubber spacer needed 
other than the hunk of radiator hose I have always defaulted to, shouldn't 
Goers or the Club make new ones? Every single pump I have ever seen has nothing 
down in the Valley of Old Grease except what somebody has juryrigged as a 
field expediant over the years. Now I know this subject has been broached before 
but I suspect the Elders that have arisen as teachers haven't really got the 
message across and some of the "we", the students, haven't had the courage to 
say.....I don't get it. Well, I am admitting it......I don't get it. Maybe 
this is like the child that finally said....The Emperor has no clothes!! Could 
someone construct a "how-to" article for the Club News perhaps? Andy always 
needs something and this would be usefull for all the years left on these great 
autos of ours. It is possible that this has been done in the early years of 
the Club. Anybody archieve an explanation and care to share in what News it 
may have been?

Larry W Jett
950 Woodside Road Suite 4
Redwood City CA 94061
650 368 3966


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