Opinions on Vit p/s steer pump

Post by **MART** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:35 pm

Bazooka,do you still have the rubber joint in your steering arm,this stops vibration going up steering column ? Cheers Paul

Post by **Bazooka** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:51 pm

Yes Mart as you can see in the picture the steering shaft still has the flanges needed to run the rubber donut. This dampener is still used although it can easily be made so you dont use it.

Post by **sanger** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:42 am

fool_injected: How are the wedges going. Will these be available anytime soon as i will be adding p/s in the very near future.

Post by **MART** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:58 pm

Has anyone got one of these wedge type steering box adapters engineered and subsequently registered,Cheers Paul.

Post by **Aerenandmel** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:23 pm

sanger wrote:fool_injected: How are the wedges going. Will these be available anytime soon as i will be adding p/s in the very near future.

so will I, id be interested to know how much $?

Post by **fool_injected** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:06 pm

Had a chat with the old man last night and i need to check a few options out

Will probaly be a few weeks yet
Little busy ATM with work (start 9days of 12hr in the morn

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Post by **sanger** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:09 am

What have people used for a double pulley for the p/s pump of a Vit. I got a barina double V belt pulley from the wreckers with same bolt pattern as the sierra water pump pulley so thats ok but apparently the Vit p/s pump has a ribbed pulley.

Anyone shed some light.

Post by **CanberraMav** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:18 am

I just got a pulley from the states. Its on the Spidertrax website under steering. They are around $50US.

It saved alot of mucking around and took 5 days to get to my door.

Post by **sanger** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:22 am

CanberraMav wrote:I just got a pulley from the states. Its on the Spidertrax website under steering. They are around $50US.

It saved alot of mucking around and took 5 days to get to my door.

Thanks but i was hoping for something a little closer to home.

Post by **zooker** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:41 am

unless you feel like changing all of the pulleys on your engine to multi-v pulleys and get a dual multi-v pulley off a swift or similar , the spidertrax single-v/multi-v pulley would be the go, and as camberraMav said it would save a heap of mucking round.

Post by **sanger** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:12 am

zooker wrote:unless you feel like changing all of the pulleys on your engine to multi-v pulleys and get a dual multi-v pulley off a swift or similar , the spidertrax single-v/multi-v pulley would be the go, and as camberraMav said it would save a heap of mucking round.

The pulleys on my 1.3 sierra are V belt pulleys. And i do have a Barina V belt double pulley that mounts the water pump.

This is why i am asking if the vitara pump pulley (which i believe is ribbed)can be changed to a V belt pulley.

Post by **sanger** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:34 pm

Well its all done and steers great

I have used full vitara system and used a barina crank double v belt pulley
and had the viatara pump pulley machined off and had the siarra crank pulley outside v section machined and welded on.

I mounted steering box flat to the chassis so i Used vitara uni joint welded to collapsable sierra steering arm to compensate for the angle.

I'll take some pics tomorrow.

Post by **nicbeer** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:40 pm

How much did u have to move the rad? if any. when i put mine in there a few things were in the way.

Btw - any news on the wedges?

Post by **sanger** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:08 pm

nicbeer wrote:How much did u have to move the rad? if any. when i put mine in there a few things were in the way.

Btw - any news on the wedges?

Spaced the mount closest to the steer box 30mm.
I mounted my box flat to the chassis using the front bottom original hole and drilling to new holes. THis requires an extra uni joint though.

Post by **sanger** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:27 am

Heres some pics
Steering box

Chassis plate

pump and bracket

reservoir and bracket

radiator spacer

Post by **offroader-rama** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 3:50 pm

have we any luck on those spacers as i'll take one for shore

Post by **nicbeer** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:18 pm

Kewl. the other side of the rad was decreased to accommodate the move?

With the plate there is some other things in the way.

With the pump setup, i am guessing u still have the 1.3? on my 1.6 with the pump was v/close to the rhs rad bracket.

Nic

Post by **sanger** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:20 pm

nicbeer wrote:Kewl. the other side of the rad was decreased to accommodate the move?

With the plate there is some other things in the way.

With the pump setup, i am guessing u still have the 1.3? on my 1.6 with the pump was v/close to the rhs rad bracket.

Nic

The other rad support was just gently persuaded to fit. No need to fab anything just made it fit.

Not sure what you mean with the plate comment.

Yea its a 1.3 but my pump was also very close to rhs rad mount.

Took it out on the weekend and it worked a treat. Deffinately one of the best mods ive done.

Post by **MART** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:22 pm

I agree , Ive been out a couple times for some fairly serious stuff and I run 35's and have had no problems , Ive heard that some overheat but Ive had no dramas turning it while wheeling. Looks good sanger and people don't realise the difference until they do it , Cheers Paul.

Post by **sanger** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:55 pm

Thanks MART. Powersteer cooler helps heaps. The system doesnt get hot at all with 31's.

Post by **hyzook** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:01 pm

I have the vit box and pump off a 2lt (pump different I think) and I have a vit 4 door radiater in there as well, the radiater needed some gentle persuading to get it to fit but the mounts are custom so the origional aren't even on the chassis anymore.

I 3mm plated the outer of chassis from the bottom and rolled it over to meet the inside origional plate at the top and then welded in crush tubes (engineer happy) I dont have any fancy angle brackets and I get full lock easy using a drop pitman arm and full hi-steer which has adjustable drag link.

Rather than risk cooking the oil I run it through a transmission oil cooler in front of radiater and have a switchable thermo fan for hot days when off road.

Never had a problem with lockers and 33s

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