power steering improvment
For those of you that are having problems with your steering stalling at low rpm's . There is a sure fire way to solve this problem if cleaning the screen does not do it... The part labeled "main fitting" in the picture has a hole threw it that the fluid passes threw. Enlarge this hole slightly and you will have quite a reduction in steering effort... . DO NOT just hog this hole out with your largest drill bit !!! If you do you will have totaly effortless steering and you will most likely blow out the worm shaft seal ... Drill this hole out 1/64 th at a time till the stalling at idle problem goes away !
The "main fitting" is different from one car/truck to the next. The hole diameter is determined by the weight of the chassis and the steering gear being used. .
The people that rebuild the pumps often put the wrong "main fitting" in the pumps for the chassis that they list that they go in. .
As for the fluid that should be used, I cannot speak for the later trucks but for all of the first gen trucks only use POWER STEERING FLUID. . Atf is too heavy ! It will cause excessive pump pressures and cause the belt to slip on the pulley... It will cause belts to break and cause the steering to stall at low rpm's...
For those of you that are having problems with your steering stalling at low rpm's . There is a sure fire way to solve this problem if cleaning the screen does not do it... The part labeled "main fitting" in the picture has a hole threw it that the fluid passes threw. Enlarge this hole slightly and you will have quite a reduction in steering effort... . DO NOT just hog this hole out with your largest drill bit !!! If you do you will have totaly effortless steering and you will most likely blow out the worm shaft seal ... Drill this hole out 1/64 th at a time till the stalling at idle problem goes away !
The "main fitting" is different from one car/truck to the next. The hole diameter is determined by the weight of the chassis and the steering gear being used. .
The people that rebuild the pumps often put the wrong "main fitting" in the pumps for the chassis that they list that they go in. .
As for the fluid that should be used, I cannot speak for the later trucks but for all of the first gen trucks only use POWER STEERING FLUID. . Atf is too heavy ! It will cause excessive pump pressures and cause the belt to slip on the pulley... It will cause belts to break and cause the steering to stall at low rpm's...
KEarnest said:Texas Diesel, I got mine done and it improved the steering assist a lot. There definitely was a bunch of crud built up on mine, the screen was completely covered. Like PPillard, it took a good long drive to get the system primed up and running good even after I bled the system. Thank you and everyone else for their help with this. I took a couple of pics of the pump parts while I had them out
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