lazylizardlabs
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Hiya Chaps,
Just Thought I'd share this with you, before any of you go down the same way......................
A couple of months ago, had a prob with my power steering, it was getting a bit stiff at lower revs, and making a fair bit of noise. So had it checked out, and had the power steering pump replaced. It was ok for a couple of miles, but started playing up soon after - to the point of not working completely.
found the main feed hose was collapsing in on itself, so got a new hose, and run it for about ten mins - and the problem was back.
Now, couldn't see any filters in line, but after draining the P/steering resevoir, found a little pressed in filter, at the bottom of the resevoir !?!?!
and it was blocked solid.
managed to clear 99% of the crud, and got my power steering working again.
my thing is tho - WTF is that captive filter doing in there in the first place !!!!!, it should be fitted with an inline type filter.
a word of warning tho, don't go playing with the ACE bottle (shares the same res, as the power steering, coz this can seriously mess up your day !!!!
Just Thought I'd share this with you, before any of you go down the same way......................
A couple of months ago, had a prob with my power steering, it was getting a bit stiff at lower revs, and making a fair bit of noise. So had it checked out, and had the power steering pump replaced. It was ok for a couple of miles, but started playing up soon after - to the point of not working completely.
found the main feed hose was collapsing in on itself, so got a new hose, and run it for about ten mins - and the problem was back.
Now, couldn't see any filters in line, but after draining the P/steering resevoir, found a little pressed in filter, at the bottom of the resevoir !?!?!
and it was blocked solid.
managed to clear 99% of the crud, and got my power steering working again.
my thing is tho - WTF is that captive filter doing in there in the first place !!!!!, it should be fitted with an inline type filter.
a word of warning tho, don't go playing with the ACE bottle (shares the same res, as the power steering, coz this can seriously mess up your day !!!!
