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Old 10-27-2015, 08:57 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jray3 View Post
Reusing the original power steering pump and just adding an electric motor via belt drive or shaft coupling is SOP in the EV conversion world.
It probably would be relatively easy to directly couple an electric motor to the stock PS pump and spin it at idle speed. No question that would be enough power. And it would sure make the plumbing easy! Might be able to find a motor with a longer duty cycle than that other pump I was looking at.
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