>Hello All: > >My second Power Steering question of the day... > >Awhile ago there was discussion on the list whether it >is OK to drive the Vanagon with the Power Steering >disabled (take belt off). I never did find out what >the popular wisdom was..but I want to do this soon as >possible. My leak is getting worse and I don't want to >have to keep filling it constantly...and I also don't >want to burn up my PS Pump. > >Does it damage anything to drive it with "manual" >steering for awhile, without the Power Steering belt >attached??? > >Please respond asap as I'd like to d this today.... > >Thanks! >Kevin > >I've heard a few people say stuff like that... I have yet to hear anyone >say "then I repaired the leak, filled 'er up, and the rack is just fine." > >Anyone resurrected P/S *after* a long period of no pump belt? Did any rack >damage result? I drove my Nissan Skyline with a broken belt for a while.. no problems. I also drove my 89 diesel Corolla van for a few months after installing a powered rack (and lines and reservoir) and before fitting a pump... the power steering works just fine now, a couple of years after fitting the pump and throwing in fluid... No, I did NOT have to fix anything. >Manual steering is FAR easier than power steering with the belt removed. >It's not just that the manual steering setup has a bigger steering wheel. >The steering geometry is different also. If you add a power steering rack >and pump to a vanagon with a front end set up for manual, it will seem even >easier to steer than a factory power steering setup as the manual system >requires more turns of the steering wheel ... lock to lock. Might be the case with the T3, but not my Corolla... steering like trying to roll a BIG boulder without a crowbar, no difference between unpowered rack & dry powered. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut |
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