Hi all,
I'm new in Forum and I first wrote my PAS problem description to new member introduction forum... I realized that that was totally wrong place.
I've been reading a lot threats about PAS problems and tried many things during couple of weeks. But only to bang my head against the wall again and again. Hope you guys can give me some hints what to do next. Here is my problem:
It was very cold (-25 celsius) one month ago here in Finland and PAS pump started keeping noise. After work day I found out that there was PAS fluid pond under car. OK, I knew that there was Dextron II or III in system and it might get thick in those temperatures and push some sealing out. So I took pump out, clean it and put it back... just to see that is it really the pump what is leaking. After refitting pump power steering worked normally without any bleeding or anything and there was no any visible leaks... but the sound was the same when turning wheel (air getting into system).
Next morning all fluid was in the bucked under car and reservoir was empty. Now the pump was clean and I saw that leak was in the pump. So I bought the new (cheap) one.
Refitted the new one and there was no power steering at all
I tried to bleed the system in many ways I found from RAVE and from YouTube and forums.
From some forum i found that these cheap pumps might have inside parts the other way around. So I open up the new pump and yep, everything was mirror according original pump... but the can be turned around (I can add pictures if some one is interested). Only one part is not symmetrical so I took that one from old pump. Refitted pump again and no result. Steering was totally stiff. Again I tried bleeding and everything.
So I disassembled the new pump again and took all the sealing from it and fitted them to old pump (because this old pump was working, only leaking). No result.
I'm starting to suspect that something else is happened during the repair... e.g the new pump was pumping in wrong direction first.. could the result some issues.. have I kept the steering wheel too long time in totally turned while bleeding first time (just noticed that RAVE says that do not keep it more than 10 sec turned... what this might cause?).
Is there something in steering box? Do anyone have any idea what I could check next? I don't want to by new pump (OEM) before I get it working with old one which was only leaking...
Maybe my short question is that should the power steering work even little without successful bleeding process or is steering totally stiff if bleeding is not done correctly?
I'm new in Forum and I first wrote my PAS problem description to new member introduction forum... I realized that that was totally wrong place.
I've been reading a lot threats about PAS problems and tried many things during couple of weeks. But only to bang my head against the wall again and again. Hope you guys can give me some hints what to do next. Here is my problem:
It was very cold (-25 celsius) one month ago here in Finland and PAS pump started keeping noise. After work day I found out that there was PAS fluid pond under car. OK, I knew that there was Dextron II or III in system and it might get thick in those temperatures and push some sealing out. So I took pump out, clean it and put it back... just to see that is it really the pump what is leaking. After refitting pump power steering worked normally without any bleeding or anything and there was no any visible leaks... but the sound was the same when turning wheel (air getting into system).
Next morning all fluid was in the bucked under car and reservoir was empty. Now the pump was clean and I saw that leak was in the pump. So I bought the new (cheap) one.
Refitted the new one and there was no power steering at all
I tried to bleed the system in many ways I found from RAVE and from YouTube and forums.
From some forum i found that these cheap pumps might have inside parts the other way around. So I open up the new pump and yep, everything was mirror according original pump... but the can be turned around (I can add pictures if some one is interested). Only one part is not symmetrical so I took that one from old pump. Refitted pump again and no result. Steering was totally stiff. Again I tried bleeding and everything.
So I disassembled the new pump again and took all the sealing from it and fitted them to old pump (because this old pump was working, only leaking). No result.
I'm starting to suspect that something else is happened during the repair... e.g the new pump was pumping in wrong direction first.. could the result some issues.. have I kept the steering wheel too long time in totally turned while bleeding first time (just noticed that RAVE says that do not keep it more than 10 sec turned... what this might cause?).
Is there something in steering box? Do anyone have any idea what I could check next? I don't want to by new pump (OEM) before I get it working with old one which was only leaking...
Maybe my short question is that should the power steering work even little without successful bleeding process or is steering totally stiff if bleeding is not done correctly?