Well, your pressure hose is OK, but your return hose is routed so wrong I hardly know where to begin. Here's the correct routing. The lower bracket is just out of view at the top of the photo.

 

There's your problem!

Thanks

 

WELL-----

Only for sure thing is, this will be blowing Fluid out very quickly with the hoses installed like this.

View the pictures of the Factory original 65 66 V8 hoses on the original, and then the aftermarket hoses on the rebuilt unit.

Hoses cannot be mounted on the control valve with the unit on the car.

Take off the unit, (I'd say rebuild it), install All new hoses (Those are bent severly), hang back in, and you will have a no leak, excellent power steering.

Dan @ Chockostang

 

Hoses cannot be mounted on the control valve with the unit on the car.

Dan, I wish you'd told me that before all those times I did it. :shocked:

You're right, though, in that it's difficult to do, and requires unusual or modified tools. A real pain. The most important part is having correct parts. Most of whats available today is dreadful. The so-called OE-correct hoses offered by typical auto parts chains are bent so poorly that the steel tubes bash into the Pittman arm if you can install them at all.

This is a classic case of "you get what you pay for". Cheap hose=bad fit.

 

Hmm. Must be why i couldn't fit it, I had the rack on the car and tried to fit the new "supposedly concourse correct hose"

Thanks a million for the pictures, I will put the car on the lift and remove the control valve and fit the hoses on a table

 

So, take two. Fitted the hose on the table before mounting the rack to the car.

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8866/kh52.jpg

This is the result, this is taken from a downwards angle so it does appear that the tube is hitting the pitman arm but it's not, barely clears it. I've looked when turning full left and full right (lifed off the ground no pressure in the system) and it still clears, my question is once on the ground and with pressure in the system will it move left or right?

 

Much better. I'd replace that zip-tie with a steel clamp, though.

With the engine off, the ball stud will move. With the engine running, it will stay centered.

 

Okay, that is certainly reassuring, I was planning on replacing the zip tie but had no steel clamps on hand and the hardware store had closed.

 

I noticed something missed in your original post. There's an early Mustang fastback sitting in a junkyard in Denmark? That would be unusual here.

 

More or less, somebody roof-chopped it. Looks like a bad front end collision that wrecked it to begin with

 

Now the routing is fine, and the control valve is rebuilt but there is still no power steering at low RPM, but if i lightly tap the pedal it has full PS.

pump or control valve?

 

Either the pump is not functioning correctly, or you have the wrong Fluid.

If you used "Power Steering Fluid" that has to be changed, Flushed out of all the system.

Refill with Type F Automatic Transmission Fluid.

Dan @ Chockostang

 

If you don't get the PS fluid out of the system FAST, you'll be contacting us here very soon looking for a new pump.

Jay

 

Very True.

 

I used an ATF automatic transmission oil, can't remember the brand without looking at the bottle

 

Brand means nothing. "Type F ATF" is a type of fluid, like motor oil that's rated "10W-30". If you have used "Dexron-Mercon" ATF, that's gotta go, too.

 

Having read similar posts on other forums, I think a safe bet is going to try and jack up the front end and and see if the angle helps bleed the system better when turning lock to lock

Read in mustang monthly that bendix pumps and sagninaw should work just fine with dexron III rated oil

http://www.mustangmonthly.com/howto/mump_0701_ford_mustang_power_steering_system/viewall.html

 

Having read similar posts on other forums, I think a safe bet is going to try and jack up the front end and and see if the angle helps bleed the system better when turning lock to lock

Read in mustang monthly that bendix pumps and sagninaw should work just fine with dexron III rated oil

Ford Mustangs Installing Power Steering Hoses - Mustang Monthly Magazine

The writer, NON experienced person that wrote "Older spec fluids, such as Dexron III, work quite well in Bendix and Saginaw power-steering systems is A IDIOT!'

There is no such thing as Bendix, or Saganaw Pumps, all 65-73 were Thompson/TRW (Same pump).

Yes Mustang Monthly, Please call me--You are leading many Folks astray here.

Next, Burping the system to "Get more air out" is a Time wasting effert. GO Drink a beer or something, it will be more productive.

Dan @ Chockostang

 

Switched to a "correct" fluid and it completely fixed the problem. Thanks!

FYI i used Liqui moly TOP TEC ATF 1300