jwkingdc

Do I have to pull the pulley on the PS pump to install the belts? I cannot get them on. They are the correct belts!

Ben Lurkin

No. I don't remember ever having a problem with them and the pulley won't come off while it's on the car anyway. The ps belt runs the water pump as well. The alternator is powered by a second belt from the PS pump. Methinks you don't have the right belt, or perhaps pulleys.

68-427Rich

Just get a longer belt.

7T1vette

If you have the stock belt/pulley setup on the engine, you do not have to remove any pulleys to install the P/S pump belt. Actually, there should be 2 belts on the [double] P/S pump pulley. The rear pulley groove is for the belt that engages the crankshaft pulley [front groove], the water pump pulley [middle groove] and the P/S pump [rear groove]. The front groove should be for the drive belt to the alternator. That pulley/belt arrangement is really a "dilly" of a setup!

ajrothm

I just went through this last weekend myself. Normally you don't have to remove the pulley to get the belts on but.....if your belt is a little shorter, you may have to. I run a thicker .5" wide belt and it is just a TAD short....just enough that I can get it on without either removing the PS pulley or removing the water pump pulley, putting the belts on it, then forcing the WP pulley back into place. The several times I have done this, the WP pulley was easier to get back on while stretching the belts into place because the shaft of the water pump helps center it....it just pops into place. Not to mention not having to get an impact up in there to zap on the big pulley nut like the PS pump has.

Running a short PS belt gives you plenty of adjustment if you had a stretching belt or slipping belt issue....which I have. If I go to the next 1/2" longer belt, i don't have enough adjustment left over after the belt stretches in...