If someone wanted to use a Mile Marker hydraulic winch, and have a hydraulic steering system, would the stock pump be suitable to run both? I have a stock 94 F-150 right now, but by the time I'm done with it it will have a Dana 60 solid front axle (among other things). I plan on using a Mile Marker hydraulic winch as well. Mile Marker sells adapter kits to use their hydro winch with the stock PS pump. If I decide to use the stock PS pump and a "custom" setup, then will I be able to run both? Any help/knowledge on this would be great, thanks.

 

well yeah, it could run it, but youd probly want to up to a higher volume pump, as if u had to turn while winching, it could get real slow. your also gonna want a good cooler on it.

 

where can you get a higher volume pump?

 

You can buy them from AGR or you can go to west texas offroads website and they have instructions on how to make your own pump flow more and put out more pressure too (instructions are for a saginaw pump, but you can usually adapt them to fords if yours doesnt already have one) I have also read somewhere about people doing the same mods to the ford factory pump with good results. I used to run a MM hydo winch, but I had it setup to run on its own dedicated pump so the steering and winch wouldnt be competing for fluid. If you really have your mind set on the hydro setup I would recommend that you use a pto mounted pump or a actual pump running from a belt to get more flow. The winch was pitifully slow due to the steering pump not really having much flow capacity. I think a p/s pump puts out anywhere from 1 to 2 GPM's but the winch motor is capable of handling 12 and the solenoid/valve will handle 8. On my current project I was going to reuse the MM winch with a PTO driven pump and a manual valve-that setup would have had awesome line speed and pulling power, but I changed my mind due to all of the hoses I would have to route, a cooler, and a resovoir tank. Its an open buggy type thing (see gallery) and I thought it would just be simpler and save some room and time to go with an electric winch. I might still use all the hydro stuff I collected in a full bodied rig that has more space to stash all of the components out of the way later on.

 

http://www.pscpowersteer.com/ Has high volume pumps as well. I bored out my Ford C-II pump for my hydro. It sped things up a little. Swapping to a saginaw pump is your best bet, and if that isnt enough then boring it out would be.

 

Right on, thanks guys. What is involved in swaping over? I have read some stuff about the hydro steering. The other tricky little part to this is, when I swap in the 5.9 Cummins (thats right, goin from a 4.9 to a 5.9), seeing if the pump from it work fior both.