Adding power steering

Best thing to do is try to find another cabover of 84-90 vintage for parts. They mostly were all power steering by then. My ‘85 parts truck has everything on it but I might be using it on my ‘73 Pete.
Also if you can’t get a pump bolted to the back of the oil pump you can mount one on a bracket and use a v-belt off of the accesory drive to run it. My Nh 250 in my ‘72 White 4000 was set up from factory this way. It has Sheperd box and pump sits up above the fan hub and water pump. The belt runs from the fan hub pulley. The 250’s had the oil filter horizontally mounted on the back of oil pump so no way to mount a hydro pump to it.

 

Friend of mine did one of their kits on a ‘75 White-Western Star over 25 years ago. It is a steering box from a F650 and works great. Steers like a feather. He has had zero issues with it.

 

Yes you would have to swap the oil cooler as well. Then most always run into some other problem.

 

This is how it is mounted. The belt is off right know because the gear box is leaking and obsolete so in the mesn time I put a Gemmer manual box in its place. Most likely it is gonna be there to stay.

 

Nice pictures! There are some army trucks around here with P/S pumps kind of like that. However those pumps mount on the pad where A/C compressors normally go.
Now the new guys will want to know what the red lever is on the side of the engine. That is warp drive right? Twin sticks to the dash! Switch to the tank with jet fuel!! Then flip the lever that changes the compression ratio!!!

 

I found you one in my shop if you p/m me your address I will send it your way if want it, its been in plastic bag for a long time but was working when i took it off a cumm. eng that vented the block when the Auto/car alum frame truck pulling a big 2 story house rolled to fast down a big hill a few mi. from my home, i will look for the steering box off coe but i am not sure where it is but pump is on shelf

 

Super clean!