Power steering pump delete revisted

[Sunaj]

Originally Posted by elhigh

If you can, install a pulley on a spindle as an idler where the PS pulley was. It's a parasitic drag but nothing like the PS.

Alternatively, move the alternator to where the PS was. Find a belt short enough to give the tensioner a little resistance to keep everything else turning.

only problem with the spindle is it would need to bolt up to the bracket just as the pump was as well as having way of attached the spindle to it. i was thinking of gutting the pump and somehow leaving the pulley part where it can still spin freely, never done it so wouldnt no how it would work. might not be seeing this right, do you have any references?

also the alternator swap idea.... not sure if the alternator can fit in the power steering pumps location, arrrgggh

[oil pan 4]

I am sure that you can make an adapter bracket to make it fit.

[NoD~]

Another idea is to, for now, loop the power steering pump itself. It'll pump fluids to itself, giving little resistance, if I had to guess. Not sure how reliant it is on that fluid for it's own lubrication or i'd say dump it out and let it run nearly dry. I'm guessing it simply is reliant on it. Again, more research required.

[Sunaj]

Originally Posted by NoD~

Another idea is to, for now, loop the power steering pump itself. It'll pump fluids to itself, giving little resistance, if I had to guess. Not sure how reliant it is on that fluid for it's own lubrication or i'd say dump it out and let it run nearly dry. I'm guessing it simply is reliant on it. Again, more research required.

yes, this is what it looks like I will have to do, seriously.

I've searched high and low for a bypass pulley for the ps pump, since its needed for the water pump to maintain. I'm not sure if i'd be able to take a similiar ps pump to fabrication shop and have them make something based on the 3 bolt pump design ( perhaps an aluminum something?) I can bolt to the bracket and spin a pulley on?

At any rate i'm out of luck, there has to be a way to get this done

[NoD~]

If you are determined, you can do it. Either milling a bracket out of some aluminum and mounting existing pulley (or a light-weight aluminum one you'd have made) from PS pump to a free-spinning breaing ($), modifying a pulley by killing the innards (way cheaper, but less efficient and some work)...

Regardless, if you can find a cheap dead power steering pump somewhere to have something to modify, it might be worth it. Modifying the existing as an experiment could leave you stranded! So be cautious if you jump into your existing one.

[Sunaj]

essentially all i'd need is an aluminum piece with 3 bolts oriented the same way as the ps pump, and something to do be drilled in the middle of that to allow a continuous rotating pulley. is there an official name for something like the center piece i'm needing? rotating shaft or..

i will need to explain this to a fabrication shop in exact terms as many i've called seemed impatient and unwilling to help map this out

[serialk11r]

I mean how expensive is that power steering pump? I would just take it apart, throw away the guts, and keep the pulley.

[Sunaj]

With no fabrication experience, I may go ahead and gut the pump. Seems like my only real opfion

[Sunaj]

managed to get the pump ripped apart, just a question to those who know how this works. what part of the pump in the picture attached here will seize if left unlubricated and running? im just curious. this is not my photo but this is a layout of similar components

[oil pan 4]

Any thing that rotates that will be left dry by removal of P/S fluid. Mainly the sliding vane rotor.