Well, its another Saturday and my panel van mojo is still going good. Spent part of today temporarily fitting my actual inner guards to get some holes cut and bits mounted. Today was drivers side PS pump...

I guess a lot of project car owners have trodden down this Astra pump pathway before and the installation is well known, but i was excited to get it fitted up so i can wire it in and connect hydraulics etc.

I decided to make the Astra pump a plug and play unit by using an Anderson plug for power and a Weatherpack connector for triggers. Interestingly, my research tells me that connecting the small Black wire to ignition and the small Blue/White wire to the alternator output (staggered 12V inputs) will make the pump spin up much faster than connecting both of these wires to simultaneous ignition, so that's what i'm gonna do...Wanna see some pics?

Plug and play pump...
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Guard preparation. Cut a 110mm hole right where the old charcoal canister used to be mounted...
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Does it fit? Yep...
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Mock it up with the trolley jack holding the Astra pump in the air...
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Will it look good? I think so, but might need to get rid of the old charcoal canister stamping and holes from the guard...
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Now I just have to mock up a right angle bracket to bolt it to the 3 x bumper bar bolts and then get a shop to make it up. I'm happy about today's efforts, time for a little session...