Power Steering input/output loop

[tsunari]

Now this thread isn't about benefits/drawbacks of removing the power steering pump & retaining the rack . . . there are plenty other threads which discuss the pros/cons.

I would like to know from those of you who have accomplished it already, how did you loop a hose from the input port on the rack to the output port? One of them has a nice 15x1.5mm nipple threaded in there for hose, but the other side has 14x1.5mm hard line screwed in there. I've looked pretty much everywhere for a nipple that will fit or even an adapter that'll let me use a 15x1.5mm nipple from a junkyard DSM . . . nothing has worked.

So what did YOU guys do . . .

 

[tsunari]

To close this thread and for archive completion, here's what I ended up doing:

Head to a junkyard and acquire the high-pressure and low-pressure fittings off of a DSM steering rack. Cut the straight nipple off of the low-pressure side and JB-weld it onto a section of your newly acquired high-pressure side. After it has cured, you can now replace your stock high-pressure line with this new fitting and loop a section of hose from the high-pressure side to the low-pressure side. If pictures are needed, hit me up.