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Subject:Re: Power Steering Pump Squeal
From:Larry Alofs
Date:Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:18:47 -0600

Are you sure it isn't the belt slipping?

Larry A.

John Bange wrote:

>My power steering pump screams like crazy when the wheel is turned to full
>lock in either direction. Is this just the pump internals in their death
>throes, or is this an indication of trouble elsewhere as well? Fluid level
>is fine and there are no symptoms other than that usual high-speed metal
>scrapey sound.
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>--
>John Bange
>'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>"We'd tell a monkey how to peel a banana, if he said he was peeling one in a
>Vanagon."
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