Need Help , to install a city power for a none powered steering punto mk2 year model 2000 . Can any one tell me the steps and what to purchase to do it .

ahmad samaha said:

Need Help , to install a city power for a none powered steering punto mk2 year model 2000 . Can any one tell me the steps and what to purchase to do it .

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Im gonna assume ur gonna need a complete loom / ecus / coloumn etc

Tbh ur better off just getting a car with it already tbh....

I dunno if ud need engine bay looms too?

Ziggy

easiest way would be to have a donar car and as ziggy says swap all loom over in car and to fuse box under bonnet
even then you might have issues if you have say abs electric windows etc and other car hasnt
on a car this age you will probably find its really not worth the effort no matter how much a peach your car is

he is from egypt, maybe his punto is the only one

Companies do make electric power steering conversion kits but These are really expensive and I doubt anyone would make one for a punto as 99.99% of them already have electric power steering.

As suggested if you could swap everything over then it's probably reasonable to do but you may be looking at changing the whole dash loom which would be a dash out job. Then hope that your car will actually accept the steering Ecu being programmed in. No power steering in a country without strict emissions rules and low cost cars mean that your car may well lack the electric gadgetry needed to get the power steering to work properly

Thanks all , it seems that I will need to do what Ziggy suggested .
Ziggy do you have a certain checklist or step by step how to do this swap .

ahmad samaha said:

Thanks all , it seems that I will need to do what Ziggy suggested .
Ziggy do you have a certain checklist or step by step how to do this swap .

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Nope im affraid

Only thing ive ever done is drop and destroy a steering coloumn for the collapsable shaft in a scrappies that had wheels locked...

Never removed or refitted one....

Ziggy

Remember that the steering rack is also different - the non-power steering version has a different gear ratio, than the one with, so it'll likely feel very light in steering, if you don't swap it as well

brinker said:

Remember that the steering rack is also different - the non-power steering version has a different gear ratio, than the one with, so it'll likely feel very light in steering, if you don't swap it as well

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The racks are yes different
Variable ration to give as much mechanical leverage when your near lock to lock

Where as power steering racks are flat rate

Note as well there are 2 - 4 different spline rates as well... so getting the shaft to match is important...

This is gonna be a very labourous job....

Ziggy

Ziggy122 said:

The racks are yes different
Variable ration to give as much mechanical leverage when your near lock to lock

Where as power steering racks are flat rate

Note as well there are 2 - 4 different spline rates as well... so getting the shaft to match is important...

This is gonna be a very labourous job....

Ziggy

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what do you mean with that, spline ? pic?

flisko said:

what do you mean with that, spline ? pic?

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Rack to collapable shaft
There are different pitches....
Mk2s are different to mk2b

There is a picture of what i mean in the mk2/2b guides sectiom where i had to change my collapsable shaft

Ziggy

i think i remember what you mean, one bolt holds that rod