GVR4 motor in 1g Eclipse...PS belt difference.

[lgnd6]

Ok so I have a 1g GSX. From what I am told it has a GVR4 motor in it. I know its a swap, as the serial numbers do not match. In addition, I have the cylcone intake manifold which justifies the claims of a vr4 motor.

I was also told that the power steering pump was out which is why it was bypassed.

After inspecting the pump, and the rack/pinion, the pump seemed fine. However, the pulley for the power steering pump uses a v-belt style belt where as the alternator, ac, and crank pulley are all the flat style belts.

I began to think that maybe the reason it is like this is maybe the USDM 1g uses the V-belts and that the GVR4 motor uses the flat belts which is why it was bypassed in the first place.

However, when I bought a new alternator yesterday for the car (I bought it for a 1991 Eclipse GSX) the alternator also used the flat style belt.

Is it possible to remove the power steering pulley and just replace that as like I said the pump seems to be fine.

I've searched for aftermarket underdrive PWS pulleys but didn't find much that I would trust.

What are my options?

Don't say just don't run power steering, or swap for a manual rack. Thats not what I want.

 

[fedj18]

well I'm not too fmiliar with the slight differences in the motors but I would suggest youo just try to find a 1g p/s pump and the bracket if needed. I'm sure you can probably find on at a pull-a-part or something similar.

 

[19Eclipse90]

I would love to try and help you out here, but this part confuses me greatly.

After inspecting the pump, and the rack/pinion, the pump seemed fine. However, the pulley for the power steering pump uses a v-belt style belt where as the alternator, ac, and crank pulley are all the flat style belts.

You are saying that the power steering pump you have in your car has a pulley for a v-belt, correct? If that is the case, that is not the problem because that is correct for DSMs. Answer me that and we'll go from there.

 

[tunethis]

1g's use a v-belt for the P/S. All the others are sepentine (flat-style) belts. The water pump pulley is divided for both the P/S v-belt and ALT. serp. belt. The water pump pulley drives the P/S belt with the rear divided section. All you need is a v-belt for the water pump to P/S.

 

[94cyclone]

You can't usually tell if a P/S pump is bad by looking at it. You need to hear / feel it.

 

[lgnd6]

Okay, so the dsms use a vbelt for the power steering pump. It runs to the water pump and its on a seperate drive belt than the rest of the accessories. I will look at it again, and try to find a schematic for the belt routing because it looked to me as if all accessories would be driven from the same belt.

Thanks.

P.S. the reason I thought maybe it was differences in the the two vehicles is because there was alot of stuff not hooked up because of slight incompatiblilities. I figured maybe this was another.