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Subject:Re: Partial Power Steering
From:OlRivrRat
Date:Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:00:05 -0600

Solved,, @Least for Now > Bad Pump ~

On 8 Jun , 2020, at 11:24 PM, Gabriel Hourtouat wrote:

> At the risk of shouting out my complete ignorance, and in the spirit of
> trying to offer up an idea...
>
> ...maybe there is a blockage or restriction in your system, something that
> keeps getting better every time you go into the system, even though the
> work may have nothing to do with the blockage or restriction?  The noise
> may have been cavitation in the pump if the blockage was on the suction
> side, or just the noise of the pressure breaking down across the
> restriction if it was on the discharge side of the pump - ?
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 12:05 PM OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>        My DailyDriver > 90Westy+EJ25 BelowDeck has developed an Odd Issue
>> ~
>>
>>        Sometime during a return from SantaFe,NM to ABQ via I25 a few days
>> ago I Lost
>>
>> Some of My Power Steering Power ~
>>
>>        Last July I replaced the High Pressure Hose due to a Major Hole in
>> the Old 1 & since
>>
>> then the PS System has been Quite Noisy ~ Shortly after that I replaced
>> the PS Pump
>>
>> just in case it had gotten damaged in the No Fluid drive I had to do when
>> the Hose Blew ~
>>
>> In March of this Yr I Replaced the PS Rack ~ Both Pump & Rack swaps
>> diminished the
>>
>> noise a little but still quite Noisy ~ I added this info as now that noise
>> is almost completely
>>
>> gone ~ I do still have Some Power Assist & I do get an Idle Bump when
>> Steering Wheel
>>
>> is Turned ~
>>
>>        Anybody have any Ideas ~
>>
>>                                                        ORR ~ DeanB
>>

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