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derek (Vortrex)
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 03, 2002 - 04:41 pm: | 
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any ideas on this? seems like the power steering is not fully working. also, steering feels more stiff on one side over the other. there's no leaks and the power steering fluid would be full (just had 60k mile service done).
one more thing, the steering wheel isn't aligned right. the car does not drift or pull. did someone just put the steering wheel back on wrong? |
Scott MacGregor (Spm)
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 03, 2002 - 05:28 pm: |
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Have you bashed your steering dampener? That caused my steering to be stiff once. |
bryan
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 03, 2002 - 06:11 pm: |
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same problem here, drained the ps resivior added new fluid, problem solved. I figure there must have been something (dirt...) in the old fluid that was blocking the lines. |
derek (Vortrex)
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 03, 2002 - 11:41 pm: |
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I think the damper is ok, I will try draining the power steering fluid and replacing. is this an easy task to do? |
Craig M. Highland (Shortbus)
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 12:04 am: |
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Sounds like air in the system. Bleed the box.
Craig |
jmon
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 03:10 am: |
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is there any noise acompanying the stiffness when turning the steering wheel? |
derek (Vortrex)
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 04:09 am: |
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no, there is no noise at all. |
Frode H�bertz Haaland (Discofrode)
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 07:06 am: |
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Derek!
Bet £1 or $1 NOK 1 or smth like that your problem is one or more sticking UJ in the steering intermediate shaft. It's the shaft running from bulkhead to PAS-box going onto splines each end. Remove it from engine bay, and it will be apparant the upper UJ has seized. Guess how I know... Check Ottos pages on this "steering" section.
It will feel like sticking at say one o'clock, four o'clock, seven o'clock... Recognize?
Roverly Yours, Frode |
bryan
| | Posted on Thursday, April 04, 2002 - 10:53 am: |
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derek
I didn't actually drain my fluid res., I used a syringe (a turkey baster might work well) to remove the fluid. There were visible particles in the fluid that I removed, that's what makes me think I had a slight blockage problem. |
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