Electric Water Pump
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Melting Slicks
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Electric Water Pump
Summit Racing has an Elec. Water Pump with a 10,000 hr lifespan. This gets my interest. Can someone give me a few ideas about the routing of the belt afterwards. I don't need the A/C Pump or the Smog Pump. Any advice would be appreciated.
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You don't need a smog pump eliminator on an '84. The water pump is a different subject. I would think you'd want to keep the A/C compressor in play, if for no other reason than to use the existing tensioner. If you don't activate the A/C clutch, it pulls no power. However, with out the water pump, you may have to "start over" in the engineering. I'm afraid this is all I have to offer. Sorry.
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Originally Posted by Rich & Lisa_84
Found this on E-bay. It might help.
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"TRACTION" is the key I have tried the above method and the belt slipped too much. Unfortunatly I dont have any pics but what we did on my frieds car was mounted an idler pulley to the left of the original water pump pulley between the crank and a/c allowing the belt to wrap around the crank further and not slip. The air pump can be left off but the belt flops alot and nothing supports the p/s bracket with teh air pump gone. I replaced my air pump with an H shaped bracket and idler to minimize belt deflection.
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I still have all my accessories, but I have looked it over and realized a brace would have to be constructed to support the inner end of the alternator bracket. Before you added the idler pulley, did the belt slip with the A/C compressor off? Only driving the alternator and the PS?
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If you are going that route don't forget to upgrade your stock 80A alternator at the same time. You might be drawing to much current away from your fuel pump and develop a performance problem.