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Yea, it was interesting and he said he learned a lot from it. Perhaps if it was done off of the transmission PTO or some other standalone hydraulic pump, but I think there is too much risk/liability mixing it with the steering.

He blew up his steering box, literally... Split the case from top to bottom due to excessive hydraulic pressure... He got it working eventually, but I would pose the question, while driving 10 tons of minivan killing death on a stick down the highway, do you really want to add potential...

I like that! No idler, no cooling system re-plumb, simple...

which he no longer runs... He switched to belt drive.

Would be hard to get more than orig driving tow pulleys in different directions, but as drawn it is significantly less, so a little more would be better IMO...

You would want that idler pulley pushed in farther to keep the belt more wrapped around and engaged with the crank drive pulley. It should have as much belt surface(friction) area engaged as the pulley you are driving... An issue you will run into is the coolant bypass line is in the same...