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Message: <blockquote data-quote="duh09" data-source="post: 1555999" data-attributes="member: 10558">Hey folks,Doing a bit of digging and coming up empty-handed, may be chasing my tail a bit here.In pulling my motor and tearing down everything, I ended up breaking the power steering pump pulley while attempting to pull it off. The puller ended up ripping the lip off of the end of the pulley as it was apparently pretty well seized on the shaft. I didn't think much of it because I didn't realize these damn pulleys are unobtanium. I ended up prying on the pulley enough to pull the whole bracket off the motor so it is 1000% toast. My original gameplan was new pulley and a new pump while I'm there but the only option I can find for a new pulley is Wazee's billet pulley for $130. Looks nice, but that gives me basically a one-time use pulley with it being aluminum. I sell these reman'd pumps for a living and although I don't see a lot of them come back, I know they're not going to last like a OE one would which means in the off chance this pump dies in the near future, I'll be out another $130 for a new pulley again. There are a couple OE pulley's on eBay but they are at or above the $200 mark and that's bananas. I've went down the rabbit hole in trying to see if anyone has ran a different pump on these cars and coming up pretty empty handed. I know Saginaw pumps are a common upgrade on the trucks, but they have OE brackets with the Econoline vans to make that work like gravy. It seems like out factory pumps have a lot more offset from the pump to the shaft so building a bracket to slap a Type II might be a little difficult. Has anyone else ran a different than OE style pump with success on a 94/95 car? Are there any options I am overlooking?</blockquote>