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ZUKIWORLD Model Specific Suzuki Forum => Suzuki Samurai (All SJ Platform) 1981-1998 => Topic started by: bbutler455 on October 12, 2012, 02:49:52 PM
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This is an RV towed "go to town" vehicle. What is an easy/cheap way to add power steering to a stock samurai?
Thanks
Brock
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you need a tracker/sidekick pump & bracket,reservoir, box, hoses.,
also need a double pulley to run it
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you need a tracker/sidekick pump & bracket,reservoir, box, hoses.,
also need a double pulley to run it
....and the trackick steering shaft (from box to column). Also make sure the trackick box has the pitman arm on it....the samurai arm won't fit the trackick box.
Then you need to buy, or make, a bracket to bolt the pump to the block. And also mate (cut and weld) the samurai and trackick steering shafts together.
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you need a tracker/sidekick pump & bracket,reservoir, box, hoses.,
also need a double pulley to run it
My Samurai originally had AC and has a double pulley for the AC. I am assuming that would work for the PS?
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you need a tracker/sidekick pump & bracket,reservoir, box, hoses.,
also need a double pulley to run it
My Samurai originally had AC and has a double pulley for the AC. I am assuming that would work for the PS?
The samurai uses V-belts and all trackicks use ribbed belts. So you can do one of 3 things.....
1) find a v-belt pulley that will fit the trackick PS pump.
2) get a PS conversion crank pulley for the samurai (the rear pulley is v-belt type, the front pulley is ribbbed type).
3) swap on a trackick double ribbed belt type crank pulley. You will have to drill the trackick pulley to fit the samurai crank, since samurais use 4 bolts to hold the crank pulley on and trackicks use 5 bolts (unless you happen to have a 94 or 95 samurai, which uses a 5 bolt crank pulley, same as the trackick). Then you can keep the ribbed pulley on the PS pump and you will also need to swap on a trackick 1.6 alternator (it is plug and play into a samurai, using the samurai alternator bracket). You will also need to swap on a 1.6 8V water pump pulley. Then you use a new ribbed belt for the water pump/alternator and another new ribbed belt for the PS.
Even though choice 3 is more work and more parts, that is how I chose to do it, when I swapped PS onto my samurais.