I have a problem with my power steering. The power steering has been giving symptoms of a bad pump (whining/hard to turn while moving slow) occasionally over the last 2 weeks, until today...something much worse happened. Today in a parking lot my wheel LOCKED up and i could not turn the car at all, did this twice, then everything went back to normal. This is very unsafe if it happens again.
I loosened the belt, there is a small front/back play of the pulley but it turns very smoothly with no noise From doing some searching i found a few other people mentioned that thier power steering pump pulley had the same amount of play so i am not that sure as to if thats a big deal or not.
I have ran two bottles of lucas p/s additive to the system over the last two weeks and removed the cap 3-4 times turned wheels back and forth to remove the air and no matter what i do, a few days later bubbles appear back in the fluid. I would like to vacuum bleed the p/s fluid ( i have a hand vacuum pump) so i would like to know the procedure for doing this if anyone has it, i greatly appreciate it.
I am really at a loss as why all of a sudden the wheel would LOCK up for a good 25 feet then "BREAK FREE", usually when a power steering pump goes bad its just very hard to turn at low speeds or worst case scenario the pump siezes and throws the belt.
There is a sensor for highway speeds ( it was unplugged when i got the car) but once again, i cant imagine any engineer designing a system that upon failure would lock up to a point which would almost definitely result in death or a serious accident.
If anyone has any other ideas or insight i would also greatly appreciate it.
I loosened the belt, there is a small front/back play of the pulley but it turns very smoothly with no noise From doing some searching i found a few other people mentioned that thier power steering pump pulley had the same amount of play so i am not that sure as to if thats a big deal or not.
I have ran two bottles of lucas p/s additive to the system over the last two weeks and removed the cap 3-4 times turned wheels back and forth to remove the air and no matter what i do, a few days later bubbles appear back in the fluid. I would like to vacuum bleed the p/s fluid ( i have a hand vacuum pump) so i would like to know the procedure for doing this if anyone has it, i greatly appreciate it.
I am really at a loss as why all of a sudden the wheel would LOCK up for a good 25 feet then "BREAK FREE", usually when a power steering pump goes bad its just very hard to turn at low speeds or worst case scenario the pump siezes and throws the belt.
There is a sensor for highway speeds ( it was unplugged when i got the car) but once again, i cant imagine any engineer designing a system that upon failure would lock up to a point which would almost definitely result in death or a serious accident.
If anyone has any other ideas or insight i would also greatly appreciate it.