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Johny5
05-19-2003, 09:00 PM
Well, today I went out and got a belt as recommended by an earlier thread and attempted to bypass powersteering and going straight water-pump to crank pulley. It hadn't struck me yet that there would be no tensioner and that bitch would NOT go on. I've been to Autozone/O'Reilly's/Pep Boys for the last 6-7 hours trying every belt they all had, no luck. I found a belt that fit but it was loose and squeeled. I'm taking off the pulley from the pump and trying to force it back on with the belt attached to it and the crank and its just a bitch of a time. Any recommendations from you guys that prove worthy would make me cry in joy for hours. Please offer any input at all to this.
Chernobyl
05-19-2003, 10:07 PM
Put a dummy pully where the stock PS pulley was and run a stock belt. You need something to adjust tension, there's no way around that.
Johny5
05-20-2003, 11:42 AM
Could you please go indepth on that? a dummy pully? If I drained the ps steering fluid would the unit just stop functioning and only act as a tensioner? I really need to fix this today and it sounds like your idea is the best so far.
Chernobyl
05-20-2003, 02:20 PM
Yea that's kind of what I meant. Are you trying to get rid of PS altogether, or is it just temporarily broken and you want to bypass it? If you're trying to get rid of it, I think you have 2 options. First would be to fabricate a mount for the stock PS pulley so that you can use it as a tensioner and use the stock length belt. The other option would be to go with an electrical water pump and get rid of that belt altogether. Both require a bit of work obviously. You can also just gut the PS pump and put it back in place as a "dummy pulley", this was my first idea, but at that point, you might as well just run PS anyway since the only reason to get rid of it is to clean up the engine bay.
Johny5
05-20-2003, 04:05 PM
personally, I just wanna lose it because I'm comfortable without it. I ran my g2 teg for 9 months without it and driving is so much easier w/out imo. That gutting idea isn't bad, I'm gonna look into that later tonight, thanks for the ideas man.