How do you change power steering pump 1998 Chevy pickup?

Answer 1

Changing a power steering pump Chevy 98If you don't have a tool called a pully puller, your not going to be able to take it off. GO to a auto shop and ask to borrow one or go buy one. Now Doing this job is not very easy. The pully puler is easy to figure out. It locks int to the pully that is connnected to the Power Steering pump. Get two pairs of plyers, you got to screw the screw into to the center of the pully asll the way. Then hold the the nut closest to the pully, then tighten the the bold that is in the pully and it will come right off. Once you get that off you got to unscrew all of the bold around it, take off the three mounting bold that hold the a/c compressor on, which is attached to a big peice of metal. Take off the lines that are comming form the steering gear box. Then it should come right out. Now DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR OLD PUMP. You need some of you old parts of of it. You take your old pump back to where you got it and get money back for however much the core charge was. Once you get everthing on the pump re-bolt evrthing back in place. Geting the pully back is quite a task to. Your pump should come with a long bold with a nut. Screw the nut in the pully and then hold the bold ond tighten the nut. It should slip right on. But make sure it is all the way back where it was.