removing PAS

[Grant]

Take the belt off and drive round the block. You'll soon see how it feels.

I cant help thinking though that for all the effort to remove....you may aswell just find a pump for a tenner and wack it on.

That's not how it feels. Without the belt you still have to move the ram manually which makes it mega heavy, with the ram removed it's just like a non-PAS car.

Also a proper non-pas 306 has different camber to lighten it up slightly. Personally out of all the cars I've driven, the best for steering feedback was my 106 which was non PAS shortly followed by the 6 which i love because its PAS when you're dry steering but seems like its not there when moving.
I can see how a lot of people don't like it though and speed variable electronic PAS is starting to match now for that but all the new cars I've driven its always been far too light!

This. If you have ever been mis-supplied non-P/S ball joints, you will notice you have an alarmingly large amount of positive camber.


Its not all that bad to remove the P/S, but as said, cheaper and easier to just replace the pump. IIRC Jonny11928839028189392921 did a guide on welding up the ram to avoid play and sloppy steering.