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Old Jul 7, 2010 | 05:45 PM
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Steering hard

My steering lately seems to be much harder than it used to be and seems to want to stay which ever way you last turned, fluids full but rather dark in color, fluid I have in the bottle is clear? Can you use ATF? Have heard of filters in the lines?? Is that a stock pump item?? Any ideas or is my pump on the way out or maybe the box itself has issues??
 
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Old Jul 7, 2010 | 06:33 PM
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Can't say for sure, but it sounds like your pump is getting weak, I believe you can use ATF, not sure though. I would'nt think that it is a steering box problem.
 
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Old Jul 7, 2010 | 08:42 PM
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yeah, box seems to be ok, no slop or binding, I did a search and saw where someone did a suck and fill like 6 times and it seemed to help so I just did the same thing and finished up with using Mobile 1 synthetic ATF, sure seemed to help, figure I'll give it a few days and maybe do it again. Got a trip going out to eastern ohio next month pullin the 26'r and don't need that goin out on me........
 
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