Alright... so my power-steering has been kinda crappy for a while, makin noise, intermittently losing power, etc. I thought my pump might just be dying, or the belt was loose, or something. While I was burping the coolant tonight I looked at the pump while the car was running and I noticed that out of the two pulleys on the pump (left and right respectively) only the right one was spinning. The left one looks pretty rough and I couldn't even make it budge no matter how hard I tried. The belt just seems to be rubbing on past it, I know this can't be good for the belt.

My question now is, can I just get a new pulley? If so, where? Would it be worth it to try and unseize that other pulley?

If not, does anyone have a working PS pump they wanna sell me?

Ahh yes, S4 TII, if that makes a difference...

 

You could ask if Checker or Auto zone or whatever has an idler pulley for your PS pump.

 

no more ideas eh?

 

help... thread... dying...

but perhaps with good reason, last bump for this guy.

 

Did you check for a new idler pulley yet? Thats about the only advice your gonna get...

What more can we do?

 

true...

Yeah, my local Checker/Shucks/Krager pretty much laughed at me when I asked, as did the guys down at autozone.

So it looks like it's time for a new pump!

Well, new being new to me.

 

If you happen to want to buy a used one, I have one for sale. $35 for it. Let me know by PM or post here.

 

U can buy the bearing at NAPA, P/N P6203-2RSJ, ~$4.00. All idlers use this bearing; one pulley has a large snap-ring so you'll need snap ring pliers. Remove and hammer the bearing out, grease the outer part of new one and tap in. Make sure its flush and spins freely. Easy, takes ~30minutes to do all idlers.