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

[mopar2@xxxxxxxxxx]

On these cars, the generator & steering pump are attached to each other,
the generator being in front with the belts running to it & the steering
pump is mounted at the rear of the generator. Thus, the belts are turning
the generator & the generator is turning the steerring pump.I believe GM
had a design much like this also. The 56 Imperial was the last one to use
this setup.
John

jbennett@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 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
> > >
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