Uh oh. How to run water pump without PS pulley?

[z1 zonly]

My forethought seems to have escaped me. Is there a way to run the belt-driven water pump without the PS pump attached for tensioning? I will be running an electric power steering pump.

[AZhitman]

Short belt around crank pulley and water pump pulley FTW.

Measure with string and take it to AutoZone to match one up.

[elwesso]

You can use a shorter belt and mess around with the tensioners. I have a picture let me see if I can dig it up.

[z1 zonly]

Mess around how? Relocate/reangle?

[tmorgan4]

Look up gs14racer's setup on his s14. I think I remember him saying he flipped the water pump/ps pump tensioner around and made it work.

[elwesso]

I remember reading someone used a different tensioner on the PS tensioner, maybe one for the alternator...

[z1 zonly]

Searching FTW!

"Fabbed up an alternator bracket for the 240sx alternator, and used the old vh45 a/c tensioner flipped upside down and sideways to tension the whole assembly. The powersteering will work right above the alternator however i just want to drive the car at this point so ill make the bracket later, haha"



Interesting approach.

Thanks for the lead guys--wouldn't have found it without you.

[tmorgan4]

Keep in mind that he made his own alternator bracket to move it back a space n the crank. I would think you could probably get that same tensioner setup to work with with a short belt looped around the water pump and crank.

[slamdbusa]

If you do the same thing as that pic of GS14racer's, you could use the KA ribbed pulley from the A/C bracket, and run the belt along the outside of the pulley.

[craigztoyz]

Thank you for posting the pic, and info. That is going to make my life a lot easier when tring to mount the alt, a/c. Always better to have seen what works on someones ride, before you have to do your own, especially when simple works.

[T45]

Is that sweet looking VH going into a Z32? I hope you have fitted it first because those mani's are wayyy too wide to fit. I don't know what you have planned so excuse me if you are doing something I don't know about.

Damn nice looking build though!!!

[tmorgan4]

Have you seriously not seen Tecni's thread on here T? It's going in a G35.

[z1 zonly]

Haha, now now, if that were my build I wouldn't have the water pump belt problem, would I?

[T45]

I thought that engine looked familiar... duh. I was like damn, everyone is polishing their engines now! lol