In a "you help me out, I'll help you out" kind of arrangement, I am finding myself working on the power steering pump bracketry on a 1969 220D. The owner doesn't know much about it, and the person who pulled things apart just left it and was never seen again. Originally the owner mentioned a broken bolt or something. He also said that 220's didn't come with power steering and this one was from a 240. Well, he was wrong about no PS on 220's, as the online catalogs list pumps and seal kits. He also mentioned a leak.

So I took a look at this car. The car had been sitting since December so there were no fresh fluids from leaks to be found. I see some oil around but no steering fluid. I checked PS reservoir to make sure it actually had steering fluid in it and it did. The pump was hanging there by the hoses, with a big bracket still attached, but not bolted to the engine. How that bracket attached to the engine was a mystery too, as the bracket is heavy and the mounting tabs are tiny.

I wanted to hear the car run to make sure it even does that before I work on this thing, so he starts the car and it rattles a lot more than his 300D's do, but it runs ok I guess. Then I see oil in the area of the cooler so I have him shut it down. I figure the cooler is bad or maybe a hose but can't see much and there is oil all over.

At this point I was thinking I have two problems (besides being stupid enough to be working on this at all). The original steering problem and now an oil leak that I can't determine. I had already replaced missing starter bolts in a 300D and got it going, so I called it a day.

I went home and did some searching here and after reading, I figure the oil cooler is leaking. It seems they aren't that commonly found, and the parts places I look at online don't have them. So I communicate this and I'm off to the car for another look.

I unbolted the massive bracket that just about surrounds the power steering pump, and removed it from the car. I can see a tab at the top where a bolt goes through is broken off, but it looks like it's been that way a long while.

I cleaned everything up, removed the fan and shroud, and put the bolts with washers back into the water pump pulley so I can start the engine and see where the leak is from. I had him start the engine, and see the oil is coming from a bolt hole on the left side of the engine (my right side when underhood).

So I ask if there are more parts maybe that were removed by the previous person working on the car? Out comes some more parts, from the trunk.
Among them I find a copper washer, but no banjo lines or anything like that, so to move the car to the driveway to work on it, I just found a short 8mm bolt, a washer and that copper washer and sealed the hole the oil came from. But I need to know what is supposed to go there. I didn't look so closely, but I'm hoping that hole I sealed isn't also used for the power steering pump bracket mounting? That would be crazy! The oil line with banjo fittings on each end that connects the block and the head is in place
on the other side and I don't see a reason for this passageways existence.

I'm sure plenty of you know that answer, so I ask. Anyone know what, if anything connects to an oil passage on the front of the block, towards the left (U.S. drivers side) of the engine?

Also I am trying to figure out these brackets.

Right away I figure out the large U shaped bracket bolts to the front of the engine on both sides, and down in the oil pan rail area. The side of that bracket bolts to the heavy bracket that the pump sits in. The top mounting hole of the pump bracket is missing the tab where the bolt passes through. It looks like it broke off but it wasn't much, and I'm thinking I can use it anyway, with a thick washer ground to fit there.

The U shaped bracket, ( really more like this: \__/ ), has holes at the bottom that match with a another small piece that looks like it bolts to that to form a rectangular hole that I can only figure might have a rubber support that goes there. There is short, heavy bracket with a small rubber block on the end but I can't see where it fits into this whole puzzle.

I either need to find a picture of how this is all supposed to look, or go to pull your part type wrecking yards until I find a car complete enough to help me figure this out. I wondering if anyone has, or can tell me where to look to find a picture of this whole bracket arrangement?

It's taken a while just to describe this mess, so I thank you in advance for any information anyone can point me to.