56 restoration

[gbhrps]

You require a pulley puller. From the parts diagram I have (don't have power steering on my 55, and the diagram I have is very small) it appears you take the bolt, lock washer and tension washer off of the pulley shaft.

From there you'll need a 3 claw type pulley puller that grips the sides of the pulley. Then you place the pulley puller's long centre bolt on the end of the power steering pump shaft. Turning in the bolt pulls the pulley from the shaft.

If the power steering pump pulley has two or three threaded bolt holes in it spaced equally midway around the pulley, you can use a steering wheel puller that works pretty much like the 3 claw puller. Simply wind two or three bolts into the pulley puller and then into the pulley, and then turn in the large centre bolt onto the power steering pump shaft until the pulley comes off.

Once again you may need to use some liquid wrench and soak the shaft before removal, or use some heat from the torch on the pulley itself very carefully. Good Luck!

[2birdman]

thanks. i may have to get a new puller since the set i got won't work. getting the bolt loose is the first problem. maybe i will try it again tonight.

[2birdman]

happy new year to all.

the pulley slid right off after i got the bolt loose. used old fan belt in vise to keep pulley from turning. pump looks pretty good inside.

this weekend i pulled the engine and got it on a stand for disassembly. who knows what i'll find once i tear it down. good times

[gbhrps]

Just a heads up for when you get around to the engine rebuild, and these concerns may not even apply to you.

My car had 18 000 original miles on it when the restoration was done, some 10 or 12 years ago. It had spent over 30 years in storage. Mostly everything in the engine was fine, within limits, and it was completely rebuilt, but a couple of things cropped up early upon completion.

One of the new frost plugs in the head leaked coolant. It was at the back end of the head, up against the firewall on the passenger side, and a bit** to get at, but we managed to get it out and replaced without removing the head again. Check those frost plugs carefully. The culprit had been expanded off centre.

A banging at the back of the engine when at idle, about a week after being put on the road, scared the daylights out of me. It sounded a lot like a thrown bottom end bearing. An old Ford mechanic friend diagnosed a bad flex plate. Sure enough, when we raised the engine enough to break away the tranny, we found one loose rivet on the flex plate.

And when it comes time to rebuild the carb, find an older mechanic who remembers these old teapots. The guy who originally did mine couldn't get mine to run well. The old Ford mechanic I was able to locate later did a second rebuild on mine, set it up properly, and had the engine just purring like a kitten at idle, and pulling strong when asked to perform.

Hope this helps.

[2birdman]

lol, yes, i expect a lot of wierdness to come about. like last night. took exhaust manifolds off and discovered a bunch of seeds and some kind of green pellets inside. i guess critters were living in the exhaust system. and there was gas in the oil and the filter was rotted and rusted. who knows what other fun stuff is waiting for me. :-)

[gbhrps]

When you get around to putting the manifolds back on, take a good look at the heat riser on the passenger side manifold. They have a tendancy to stick closed, causing overheating problems. They need to be constantly freed up with a high temperature lube like Jigaloo Extreme Graphite (in a green spray bomb). Some guys even gut the heat riser, taking out the round butterfly valve, but leaving the control rod in place with the spring. It looks stock at a car show, but won't ever cause any problems.

[Harley Eaton]

Am I guessing correctly that you do not have a shop manual? You should get one!~
The tool to remove the power steering pulley is a one half inch box end wrench. Then the pulley slides off the shaft.

[2birdman]

i have the manual. from what i recall, it says "remove the pulley", but not "how". :-) i'll probably order p/s or p/b repar kit this week
over the weekend i was able to get intake manifold and one of the heads off. may get the other head off tonight.

[2birdman]

finished taking pistons out last night.
not sure how i will get crankshaft out because i don't have the tool for removing the pulleys in front of harmonic balancer.
engine is pretty clean inside. no critter surprises, and bearings and journals are in decent shape.