I have the oppurtunity to pick up a complete power steering unit from a 57 ford and I wanted to know if the whole thing will polt right up to my 1956 ford non power steering car?

Fomoco Low Life

The front suspension and steering on the '57 is different from the '56 as I recall unless it it a T-Bird. '55, '56, and '57 Birds were the same and the same as those years of passenger cars. '57 was new and improved as I recall.

So nothing in that picture I really can swap into my car besides the pump then?

Fomoco Low Life

Yes the pump is the only part you can use, and even at that the 56&57 had different pulleys.

  JUST A MIDNIGHT CRUISE DOWN THUNDER ROAD!!! TOM DRUMMOND MIDWEST DIRECTOR 57 FORD INTERNATIONAL

Does anyone know where I can get the rest to complete a kit for my car?

Fomoco Low Life

If your car is an automatic, Borgenson came out with a power steering box that bolts in the same location as the original manual box, but it won't work with clutch linkage.

Rono

  Ron Lane,  Meridian, ID

You could use a Granada set up with some minor modification.  Tried to send you a pm, but your box is full.  Where are you located?

Butch Lawson

Manchester,  TN

The only thing you can use from the picture is the crankshaft pulley. Everything else is different. By the picture the PS control valve is the smaller diameter thread one which is late 57. Some of the earlier 57's used the same control valve as the 56's

This mounting bracket for the water pump is longer which pushes the pump outward and will hit the front suspension on a 56.

The pump is different as this pump was only used on some of the 57's and early 58's. It has a bronze bushing instead of a support bearing on the pump shaft. The pulley is different in that it has a larger offset than a 56 pump pulley and the centre of the pulley will hit the fan blade unless you have lots of fan to rad clearance and can change the spacer. If you have a 4 core rad there is not enough clearance for this pulley. You cannot change the pulley to the 56 either as the pump shaft extends out farther than a 56 pulley due to using the bushing instead of a narrow ball bearing, belt alignment will be out.

I had a NOS one of these pumps and brackets which I gave away because I could not sell it for three years at a swapmeet.

marv

If you are unable to use the kit, is it still for sale?

Jim - Erie Colorado, 1957 Country Sedan

That 57 setup if it's complete, is worth something.. A fully complete rebuilt unit, all parts itemized, & done by a steering shop, was advertised more than a year ago for about $1600. Do not seperate it out or discard it!..

Paul