im assembling a 72 302 bronco, previous owner completely dissembled the car and I've been trying to make sense of everything. Bracket is stamped d1oa-3c511-aa
The power steering bracket , I know from pictures thats the correct way to mount it on the pump, and i believe the 5th slotted hole is a custom addition.
-The long 7/16" bolt going through the bracket/pump, I have going into the cylinder head top right bolt
-the bracket's top left bolt, i tried going into the water pump bolt you see backed out in the pic
doing this looks like the correct location for the pump to live, but the brackets OEM bottom left hole doesnt line up with anything. Its also stamped in a shape so the water pump bolts have different depths but the water pump itself has all its bolts on the same plane. All I can think is either its the wrong bracket (even though it looks identical to the repops) or regardless of what parts stores say this is the wrong water pump.
any help or direction is greatly appreciated.
The power steering bracket , I know from pictures thats the correct way to mount it on the pump, and i believe the 5th slotted hole is a custom addition.
-The long 7/16" bolt going through the bracket/pump, I have going into the cylinder head top right bolt
-the bracket's top left bolt, i tried going into the water pump bolt you see backed out in the pic
doing this looks like the correct location for the pump to live, but the brackets OEM bottom left hole doesnt line up with anything. Its also stamped in a shape so the water pump bolts have different depths but the water pump itself has all its bolts on the same plane. All I can think is either its the wrong bracket (even though it looks identical to the repops) or regardless of what parts stores say this is the wrong water pump.
any help or direction is greatly appreciated.