took the first step in fixing my vibes today, installed a reman PS pump, with a much smaller pulley( about 1.5ish inches in diameter smaller, suggestion courtesy of clydefrog) i also found this cool little cooler line adapter for the steering gear, it was for a chevy truck but both the xj and the truck both ran saginaw boxes so i figured id give it a whirl
factory gm pulley on the left:
Adapter:
i had to bend it up just a hair but it worked perfectly
Much more betters clearance:
had to get crafty pressing the new pulley on, the front of the pulley was flush with the shaft before it was in line with the belt so i had to stick the end of a 3/4" wrench in there to get it to press dow far enough, you can see where the pump shaft is sticking out past the pulley:
of course with the smaller pulley i needed to run a smaller belt...or so you would think..
the L99 water pump im using uses a giant tensioner pulley that i swapped out with the truck pulley so my current belt would fit, its the same belt i was running on the 4.0L post first e-fan conversion haha, plus with out a dd i didn't want to deal with trying to get a different belt, nearest parts store is 3miles away. any who stuck the giant pulley on there and belt length was perfect
next up with be shimming the transmission up till im happy with the angle of the dangle, then fiddling with the front pinion angle and getting 4wd working.
then setting up the a/c which im not really looking forward to( i mean the work, obviously im looking forward to having a/c again)