Saxo P/S Pump how too?

[hawker182]

Been searching and searching for a how too on fitting a saxo/106 electric powersteering pump. Anyone have a link or done this themselves, just like a heads up before i start anything.

Cheers Adam

ps:moved house now and the cars finally got a home of its own....A GARAGE! can actually leave it in parts over night, its GREAT. lol the little things in life.

[grinder]

i think antnickuk runs one - best speaking to him about it

i was told that the lines are the same fit - so reasonably plug and play

if you do it - take LOTS of pics for a full write up

[hawker182]

Well started the electric power steering task today, relatively hassle free so far. As i was doing it i realised that i was doing some things the hard way but hey trial and error and got it out with no complications so pretty pleased

Started by disconnecting the two attached wires which lead to just under the main fuse box.....does anyone know if any effect will come from just leaving these unconnected? The new pump has only a + and - so gonna run one to ground and the other to the ignition with a small fuse in line.

[hawker182]

Then removed the drive belt by loosening the small idler pulley locknut and loosing the adjusting nut on top

[hawker182]

Once the belt was off i loosend the low pressure pipe (inlet) keep the fluid reservoir cap on though else it\'ll gush out quick



Drain the fluid into a suitable container, all i had to hand was some rag but this was enough as there was not much fluid, to stop it leaking i pushed a small bung in, this did the trick and kept me from getting smothererd

[hawker182]

Once i had that under control i undid the two main pressure hoses screwed into the top of the p/s unit, these are the high pressure lines (outlet). One is larger than the other, models with speed sensing ps have only one high pressure line i believe, but models with electronically controlled ps have two.

[hawker182]

Once these were removed and pushed out of the way i could concentrate on getting the ps pump out as it was now connected by no hoses or wires. I decided instead of removing the ps pulley earlier and removing the pump from its metal bracket holding the pulleys to just do the lot in one go.

There are five fixings two bolts and three nuts holding the ps bracket to the engine housing next the crank angle sensor. these were surprisingly easy to get at and remove, in the pic you should be able to see the postion of where it was attached

[hawker182]

and this is the unit once removed, you can see the five fixing points, two nearer the front of the car and three nearer the bulk head.

[hawker182]

Look at the room!!!! The bolts from where you just removed the ps bracket, which will still be sticking out from the engine housing can be unscrewed with a pair of plyers, just to tidy the whole thing up abit

[hawker182]

After a bit of a clean up whilst its easy to get too. Also had removed the HT leads earlier to get some more room for my wrench when removing the bracket bolts.

[hawker182]

Next i removed the smaller of the high pressure lines by following it round and undoing any bolts, cable ties. I plan to block this one off by screwing a bolt into the pressure line at the base of the strut tower...see pic - the one high pressure line i will reuse as its the same fittment on the saxo\'s ps unit

[hawker182]

This is as far as i have got today, heres a picture of the new electric powersteering unit, it weighs in slightly less, not a considerable amount but is certainly alot smaller and you get the benefit of mounting it lower down so you can easily get the FMIC piping installed.

[antnicuk]

let me know if you need to know anything

[hawker182]

Only thing i am worried about is making some kind of bracket for mounting it?
Once i\'ve sized it all up shouldnt be too bad but at the moment i know how i\'m going to connect it up just not sure how to securely fasten it. Hmmmmm

[antnicuk]

i fitted mine under the passenger side of the front bumper as i wanted it out of the way.  Where the headlight washer bottle went