steering rack

[stelan]

Originally Posted by The Radium King

depends. if you are keeping your ac then you just delete the pump altogether and run a shorter belt. if your ac is gone then you need some sort of dummy pulley there. GSR make one that mount in place of the ps pump. porsche make one that mounts in place of the ac pump (for the cayman r when it came out, but the ac pumps are the same throughout model years so should fit); both are about the same cost. GSR, before they made the dummy pulley, were just using a gutted ps pump and apparently no issues, so i assume a dry bearing.

Yes im keeping the ac, that makes it easier

[Sassmatt72]

will it fit my 98?

thx, matt

[Pdwight]

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[RAGING_BULL]

Do you know what the machine shop did to permanently lock the pinion in place and get rid of the slop needed for PS to work?

I've done manual conversions on racks before and the pinion was welded. I saw a mention of shimming the pinion to lock them together but wasn't sure if that was accurate.

I have my 986 rack apart and am going to convert it (weld pinion, get rid of middle seal, plug all pipes, grease, reassemble) but wanted to see if there is something I'm missing.