I have a 05 ram 1500, 4.7. The power steering pump went bad in it, so i bought a replacement...its off and sitting on my kitchen floor. I have everything figured out except how to get the pully off the pump. It almost looks like its just pressed on but its just a smooth shaft and doesnt makes sense.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Aaron Powell

 

it's pressed on. You'll need a puller. Places like Autozone or Advance Auto rent the tools for free or you could just buy a pulley puller for like $20 and have it in your garage.

 

haha well you couldnt be more right.....advanced auto parts had the puller i needed and also offered to pull it off for me at no charge (BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE) the apparently proceeded to put the PLASTIC pully in a VISE and crushed it to pieces. Should of just bought the damn puller and done it myself....but noooo i was in a rush, now i have to wait for the dealership to open. So much for wheelin this weekend

Thank you for the help though! much appreciated :-)

 

they wont replace it?

 

I'd make them pay for it too! They broke it.

 

hell ya tell them to pay for it, i would have thrown down in that store!
and then called in the posse

 

that's something they need to pay for

 

a vice is the WRONG way to pull it off. the auto parts store will let you borrow a pulley puller for free. read the instructions it comes with before you use it.

 

well yes....they said they were goin to pay for it...but the dealership wont be open til tomorrow (hopefully they have one)

And in response to "xfeejayx" NO ****! i wasnt the one that put it in the vice and by the time i saw them putting it in the vice i already heard the thing crunch. read a little closer next time.

 

relax a little bit. I know you didn't put it in a vice, and i did read that they did it.

but here's the truth: somebody put YOUR pulley in a vice, and YOU didn't/weren't able to stop them. I thought it might need to be pointed out that a vice was bad idea. who knows, you might have gotten a new pulley and tried to put it on by putting the pump in a vice and hammering on the pulley.

the pulley is supposed to be changed out every time you change a pump (dodge trying to sell more unneeded parts), so they should have one in stock.