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It's finally done...
Well with some help from Erik today to fab a bracket for a washer resevoir, my steering upgrade is finally complete.
Thank you's also go out to Blaine for the help with the steering box swap and Rick for moral support and the high heat of his ox/ac torch. 
here is a before picture...
Just to recap... I installed a PSC 621mr assist ported box and their "P" pump conversion for the 4.0L Jeep engine.
This is by no means a "bolt-in" application. The pump is much larger so it must be moved out away from the tc pumps original location. In TJs three problems arise. One, the pumps on the windshield washer resevoir reside in some of the space the p pump needs. Two, the radiator overflow bottle is slightly to deep for clearance of the p pumps pulley. Three, you must find a mounting location for an external power steering fluid resevoir.
Some have mounted the ps fluid res to the driver side of the master cylinder. This is a great spot, unless your TJ is equipped with ABS. I elected to use some of the space previously occupied by the washer bottle. Rick's torch was helpful in bending a bracket.
For the radiator over flow, Jaz products makes a recirculating catch can that fits in the stock location with the addition of one mounting hole. It's slim enough to provide the extra clearance needed for the new pulley location. This product is available at Jegs.com.
Since I'd used some of the space occupied by the oem washer bottle for the PSC ps fluid resevoir, I needed to find something smaller that would fit the remaing space. After a trip or two to the junkyard I found a small bottle out of a Mitsubishi (sp?) pick-up with a pump attached. A mounting bracket needed to be fabbed (thanks Erik), but it fit where I needed it to.
Last but not least, the steering box itself is bigger than stock. The skid needed to be spaced with afew washers to fit properly. Thanks Blaine for the use of your pitman arm puller, sorry we broke it
(finally).
That covers the space problems,
Now for the part problems.
you need a new longer serpintine belt. Good year part# 4061000(for 4.0 w/factory air). Buy a spare, no one but me has one.
you need a new high pressure line with 18mm adapter for the box and -6 female flare for the pump. order it with your other parts to make life easier.
you need a new fitting at the low pressure outlet of the box. the fancy new high pressure fitting won't work well with the hard line on the low pressure side. anyway... 16mm adapter with 90deg push fitting.
I also used a few more 90 deg fittings to get things just the way I liked them.
I guess that's about it. here's the after pic...
I again would like to thank Blaine, Rick and Erik. Without their help this would still be sitting on my apartment floor. Thanks guys.
:thumbs_up :yay:
Well with some help from Erik today to fab a bracket for a washer resevoir, my steering upgrade is finally complete.
Thank you's also go out to Blaine for the help with the steering box swap and Rick for moral support and the high heat of his ox/ac torch. here is a before picture...
Just to recap... I installed a PSC 621mr assist ported box and their "P" pump conversion for the 4.0L Jeep engine.
This is by no means a "bolt-in" application. The pump is much larger so it must be moved out away from the tc pumps original location. In TJs three problems arise. One, the pumps on the windshield washer resevoir reside in some of the space the p pump needs. Two, the radiator overflow bottle is slightly to deep for clearance of the p pumps pulley. Three, you must find a mounting location for an external power steering fluid resevoir.
Some have mounted the ps fluid res to the driver side of the master cylinder. This is a great spot, unless your TJ is equipped with ABS. I elected to use some of the space previously occupied by the washer bottle. Rick's torch was helpful in bending a bracket.
For the radiator over flow, Jaz products makes a recirculating catch can that fits in the stock location with the addition of one mounting hole. It's slim enough to provide the extra clearance needed for the new pulley location. This product is available at Jegs.com.
Since I'd used some of the space occupied by the oem washer bottle for the PSC ps fluid resevoir, I needed to find something smaller that would fit the remaing space. After a trip or two to the junkyard I found a small bottle out of a Mitsubishi (sp?) pick-up with a pump attached. A mounting bracket needed to be fabbed (thanks Erik), but it fit where I needed it to.
Last but not least, the steering box itself is bigger than stock. The skid needed to be spaced with afew washers to fit properly. Thanks Blaine for the use of your pitman arm puller, sorry we broke it
(finally).That covers the space problems,
Now for the part problems.
you need a new longer serpintine belt. Good year part# 4061000(for 4.0 w/factory air). Buy a spare, no one but me has one.
you need a new high pressure line with 18mm adapter for the box and -6 female flare for the pump. order it with your other parts to make life easier.
you need a new fitting at the low pressure outlet of the box. the fancy new high pressure fitting won't work well with the hard line on the low pressure side. anyway... 16mm adapter with 90deg push fitting.
I also used a few more 90 deg fittings to get things just the way I liked them.
I guess that's about it. here's the after pic...
I again would like to thank Blaine, Rick and Erik. Without their help this would still be sitting on my apartment floor. Thanks guys.
:thumbs_up :yay:
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