A very good KRC power steering pump

[norvalwilhelm]

I don’t know why but I went through a stock pump about every year. I finally decided to go with a racing style of pump . A KRC pump from I believe Sweet or something like that. I got it through Coleman racing. It is a light weight small pump with a large inlet from a remote resovoir and a normal #6 outlet .
It is extremely versatile in that it can be bolted to any aluminum plate and that plate bolted to whatever.
Here is my homemade ½ inch thick plate and 3 standoffs screwed into the block. By adjusting the length of the standoffs I align the pulley.
I have run this pump for 4 or 5 years now. It is about 100 psi more then our pumps and safely can be spun to 9000 rpm. It has a large pulley, a trick looking pulley that looks like titanium but I don’t believe it is.
The pump is very light, small and can be adapted to anything.
The motor still is not cleaned up in the front.

 

[bossvette]

I've been toying with the idea of a remote system on my 76 since its such a PITA to fill and have looked at the stuff the roundy round boys run. How did you plumb it in; does the return from the cylinder go to the resovoir?

Thanks
Craig sr.

 

[norvalwilhelm]

I bought a romote tank to go with the pump but didn't like it because the outlet was at the bottom and the tank needed to stand straight up. I got a canister from a air conditioner and using it and the bought oil resovior I cut and welded the 2 together and built this lay down version.
A single large outlet in the bottom of the tank feeds the pump and the pump has a #6 pressure line comming out.
I return the power steering to a port on the tank as well as a return line for the hydorboost.
This is the homemade tank

 

[bossvette]

Nice work, thanks for the tip.! There are supposed to be some models of S10s with remotes and I had an old diesal sububan that had a remote pump. I just haven't pursued it that far yet, the next engine will have one.