My little sister had a 93 Lumina Z34 for her first car. It had the 3.4L DOHC in it. Hardest to work on car I've ever worked on. To do anything you just had to start pulling stuff out. I pulled the rear head on that motor because the previous owner had got it hot and it had dropped an exhaust valve seat. To replace the alternator you had to separate the passenger side lower balljoint and pull the passenger drive axle. Even then it was buried. I did a lot of good work on that car when I was young but to some extent it used me up. I've sworn off those knuckle buster front wheel drive cars. Other than classic cars or my GMC, my dad's GMC or my brother's GMC, I just don't work on them anymore. If it doesn't have a V8 and rear wheel drive, you'll be hard pressed to get me to work on it. I totally feel your pain on going through all of the work to replace that ps pump only to have it keep whining. I am impressed with your ingenuity with the modified top and the vacuum pump. If you replace the rack and hoses I hope that works out.
