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Originally Posted by Intrigued

If a person changed to a manual steering box, one or two deep-cycle batteries to enable stripping the alternator, and just bite the bullet on air conditioning (balance out the weight of the extra battery?), then the water pump would be the only thing left to go completely beltless!

In most smaller cars, i.e. My Civic, you can just re-route the lines to circulate the fluid from one side of the piston to the other, and it won't be any different to steer.. I ran a PS rack without the PS pump on that car for a year, and when I got the manual rack installed, I was pissed b/c it made no discernable difference.