Power Steering pump throws belts (Was: IML - - - [blank])

[<jbennett@xxxxxxx>]

If the power steering pump throws belts, the belts would be on the 
power steering pump. What you describe are the GENERATOR BELTS. Do you 
know his car and how the power steering is set up? If the guy AND HIS 
MECHANIC say that the power steering PUMP is throwing belts, I think 
that the power steering pump is run by belts, NOT by the generator. 
Since power steering is standard on Imperials, some oddball add-on PS 
system must have been added for the pump to have belts on it. I take 
the word of the owner and his mechanic, not armchair theorizing.

----- Original Message -----
From: mopar2@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2002 2:11 am
Subject: Re: IML: Power Steering pump throws belts  (Was: IML  - - -  
[blank])

> I wouldn't say there's no belt to break. The belts are turning 
> both the
> generator & the pump. If one or the other is binding, then it could
> certainly ruin the belts.
> John
> 
> James T Bennett wrote:
> 
> > Dick -- and others --  There is something fishy here about this 
> power> steering pump thing. Michael Bambas, the guy with the power 
> steering> pump breaking belts has a 1955 Imperial.  Hello!! For 
> BOTH 1955 and
> > 1956, the power steering pump is attached to the back of the 
> generator.> THERE IS NO BELT TO BREAK.
> >
> > UNLESS he has some kind of a jury rigged pump tacked on....
> >
> > Jim
> >