tolis said:
if u want to take your power steering out do the following:
1)take out the power steering pump
2)drain all the liquid from the steering
3)replace your belt with a smaller one
its so easy :thumbup:
WTF are you spewing dude! you CAN'T replace the belt with a smaller one, how would you adjust the tension??? have you even looked at it? the PS pump
IS the belt tensioner. you can't just remove it, you have to replace it with a stock idle pulley/tensioner. with no tensioner you can't even get a belt onto the pullys...and if you could, it would be far too loose to even work.
StevenLK: you are correct, you must replace the PS pump with an idle pully/tensioner.(see above yelling at guy). once you replace the PS pump with an idler/tensioner, you can go ahead and use the same belt...this is why autozone doesn't have one for w/o powersteering, its the same length. :thumbup:
like i said, i'm fairly certain you can obtain a stock tensioner. go to autozone and ask for a replacement belt tensioner assembly (yours broke...lol, corny joke)...if they dont have one, try a $tealership. at the worst you could fabricate your own using the PS pump as a stencil. but look around a bit, and dont listen to that guy, he hasn't even looked at the assembly. you have to replace the PS pump with a tensioner :cheers: