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Old 02-20-2014, 10:24 AM   #4 (permalink)
yoyoyoda
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I may need to tow with this car in the future, fully laden with a trailer attached, possibly down some steep winding hills. And I already removed the P/S belt and the car was undriveable even with my well built arms. (I tried it for 2 weeks, it was borderline dangerous.)

Also I lifted the car and there was no resistance felt at all in the system, so the pump doesn't add any appreciable amount to the rack, so looping the lines and deleting the P/S pump wont affect things, logically...

I'm thinking maybe drilling a hole in one of the flow pistons in the power steering pump, if this pump has it, what pump doesn't?

That might increase responsiveness, but I want to reduce assistance...

I will try and pull the pump out tomorrow and see if I cannot modify it for about 1/4 or 1/3rd or even 1/2 power assistance. I don't mind having a reduced power assistance but having none at all will affect things greatly if I ever need to tow or carry.

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