Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 06:35 pm, by: Kierin Woods(Lexsc400)
Hi all
Last night after doing a u turn round a round-a-bout, my power stopped working in my 92 v8 soarer. Now, the pump is still turning, it's not making any weird noises, and the radiator fan is still running (as i understand it runs off the same pump, right?)
I topped the fluid up, and I have had none leak out onto the shed floor.
Could it be a fuse? Any help would be fantastic. Im hoping its simple (doubt it) and inexpensive (doubt it) fix.
Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 06:44 pm, by: Dan McColl(Hoon)
I'm not that familiar with the pwr steer probs, but the fan is run of a totally separate system from the pwr steer. I'm sure someone will be along shortly with a solution. Best of luck.
Sunday, September 11, 2005 - 03:07 am, by: Peter Nitschke(Pen)
Kierin, the fan pump and P/S pump are different as mentioned above. It seems there have been a few cases - mainly doing donuts - where the P/S pump has developed a problem, it seems the risk is having it turned hard with high revs, causing high internal pressures and damaging the pump.
Sunday, September 11, 2005 - 07:44 pm, by: Don Bagnall(Baggs)
As I said in the other thread, holding your wheel on hard lock puts untold psi through your pump. Even doing it at idle will eventually cause problems down the line, doing it at high revs WILL bugger it pretty much straight away.
When you want to have full lock on for doing donuts etc, go to full lock, you will hear the pump loading up due to pressure, back off the steering wheel a smidge, that's all it takes to ensure hydraulic longevity & happy donuting
Monday, September 12, 2005 - 10:34 am, by: Kierin Woods(Lexsc400)
Okay just ordered a power steering pump rebuild kit from the local toyota dealership. $41.65 does seem very cheap, hopefully will fix my problem. Thank you for everyone's help.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 12:06 pm, by: Michael Banazis(Banazis)
So rebuilding a power steering pump (with the kit mentioned by Kieren) is doable?
I've recently found that in the morning when my car is cold the power steering pump will make a bit of noise with any steering input at all (ie. not just on full lock). I rang Toyota yesterday to get a price for a new one and was told they're a cool $950 ex GST.
If my water pump ($1200 ex GST) and power steering pumps go at the same time I might have to start selling body parts
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