69 Mustang power steering and headers

What engine do you have?

You might want to figure you why someone welded that there in the first place. To me you may have a bigger issue than not having headers.

I have a 302 engine, with long tube headers, a/c, and p/s.

The cylinder will fit and bolt to the stock location, the only noticable problem is that the boot touches the headers causing it to melt. I think my p/s system was leaking even before I put the headers in a long time ago, so I don't know if that contributed to any problems. Would the heat from the headers contribute to p/s system issues? Do you think some heat shield wrap around the headers at that point would be sufficient to continue using the stock mounting location?

when i put hooker headers on my 69 351W the new PS bracket was simply longer than the stock one. maybe a good welder could fab and attach an extension to the stock one.

Steve wrote:

I'd rent one of those hand held die grinders. It's made for tight spots just like this. With a 302 you may be able to rough cut the welds with a