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OK I have a 1998 Chevy Z71 5.7L Voretc V8. I have worked on cars a long time, but this has me puzzled real bad. I’m taking the power steering pump off, and I have done everything like you are suppose to. Like remove the fan shroud, used a pulley remover and removed the pulley, took the 4 bolts out of it, unhooked the rubber line that connects to the hardline to the pump. I still can’t get the pump to come out. I have crawed under the truck and can see the lower backside of the pump, but can’t see anything that would be holding it back. So can anyone help me please, it would be greatly appreciated at this point! I’m totally stumped on this one.
Well after about 8 hrs of messing with it, and searching. I finally got it out and off the vehicle. There is a wire plug, and another bracket hidden in the back by the harmonic balancer. That holds the pump on. This particular year of trucks had a EVO part attached to the power steering pumps. Now when you go to certain auto part places they will give you the wrong part, because you can’t get the EVO on them no more. GM quit making power steering pumps on them in late 97. So you will need to check the power steering pump before going to purchase a new one, and see if it has a EVO on it. You get a new pump that has a bypass pipe on it from Oreiley’s, and Napa.
On the 96 pump, there is a tube hardlined to the pump. Where is the hose from that supposed to go? I recently put an engine in my 98 and the pumps are different.
