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Originally Posted by busypaws
I just turned my power steering into a manual steering box. The act of turning the wheels forces the fluid out/back. That is how the pump was helping you turn. Now that you supply the turning force you are pushing some of that fluid out the outlet and back through the inlet. It is how the power steering assist is setup inside the rack. Reading this site and others it mostly states to make sure you have some loop from the output of the rack (input to the pump) back to the input side of the rack (output of pump). If you just cap off the rack then you really have to work harder to turn the wheel.
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So just disconnecting the belt doesn't mean you have free turning steering with no interference from the pump? The pump is no longer getting it's energy so it's much like the engine is off and you're pushing against the same kind of resistance? That seems insane to me because without considerable motion power steering systems with no pumping action are WAY hard to turn. It's not even close to being safe to operate a vehicle that way.
What you're proposing is that someone could remove the interference from the pump by simply bypassing it (whether that involved removing the whole power steering system or not) by just creating a loop of sorts with a long piece of hose, wherein power steering fluid would flow slowly or moderately through what is left of the power steering system. Or have I still missed something?