power steering pump?
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power steering pump?
My pump startes to whine and when I added fluid I could see it was leaking. I drove it home and the whining stopped and the pump worked fine. I had to get a tire fixed so I drove it to the shop and the pump was OK till about a mile or so from the shop. When I pull the truck in there was a trail of fluid and when I backed out the same trail and it was whining. But when I took off the whining stopped and the steering got hard. I wrestled her home and found that the leak is from the top hose. It may seem like a no brainer but is the pump shot?
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it sounds like the pump is your issue, plus a maybe a leaky hose, but i was just adding i had a weird one that i just fixed a couple of days ago. i had power steering turning right but no power turning left. and by the time i got to fixing it it was no power steering. so a new (used) box and a new (used) pump and everything to my amazement works perfect, no leaks or pump whine or nothing.. only thing i did wrong is the box came off of an F150, mine is a 250HD and the pitman is different. so when i swapped pitmans i indexed it the same as the 150 pitman was but it should have been different. now i'm a 1/3 of a turn out on the box causing my steering wheel to be 1/3 turned. oh well. i'll have to fix it when i get some more time.
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jim collins
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Oct 29, 2016 09:36 PM
