This saga started in July on an offroad wheeling trip. Pushed the girl pretty hard and afterwards I noticed the high pressure hose was leaking. Ordered a Gates replacement from rock auto. I had to pull the radiator, shroud and fan to do it but I got it done. I flushed the fluid and put dexron 3 and mity vaced the return line while continuing to add fluid until I got the air out. Started it up and noticed a good bit of noise.
It worked fine but the noise was too aggravating so I changed the pump. The noise did not go away. It almost seemed to be a high pitched vibration coming from the hose so I went through the entire length making sure it wasn't vibrating against something this helped a little but it still was way too loud.
I noticed the gear box was leaking so I started looking around and noticed autozone showed a "new" one made by BBB I think. I got it in today, bled everything started up and noticed the noise at idle while not turning was gone but there was a far louder noise while turning. The bleeding process i used was jacking the front tires off the ground and removing the coil wire so the engine wouldn't start turn the engine over 10 to 15 seconds and add fluid. I did this 10 or so times until it stopped needing fluid. It never got low enough to suck air.
After putting the coil wire back on, I started it up and turned lock to lock 10 times. I then put the truck on the ground and tried to drive it. There was very little power assist and a lot of noise. Still full of fluid but noise like it was low. Jacked it up again and turned lock to lock 10 times again.
Put it back on the ground and drove around still very little assist and a lot of noise. Get back pop the hood and fluid is spewing out the back of the pump.
I cannot figure this out. Everything is either new or remanufactured. I am putting the old pump back on tomorrow. If that doesn't work, I am at a loss as to what to do next. I have never had this much trouble with power steering before.
It worked fine but the noise was too aggravating so I changed the pump. The noise did not go away. It almost seemed to be a high pitched vibration coming from the hose so I went through the entire length making sure it wasn't vibrating against something this helped a little but it still was way too loud.
I noticed the gear box was leaking so I started looking around and noticed autozone showed a "new" one made by BBB I think. I got it in today, bled everything started up and noticed the noise at idle while not turning was gone but there was a far louder noise while turning. The bleeding process i used was jacking the front tires off the ground and removing the coil wire so the engine wouldn't start turn the engine over 10 to 15 seconds and add fluid. I did this 10 or so times until it stopped needing fluid. It never got low enough to suck air.
After putting the coil wire back on, I started it up and turned lock to lock 10 times. I then put the truck on the ground and tried to drive it. There was very little power assist and a lot of noise. Still full of fluid but noise like it was low. Jacked it up again and turned lock to lock 10 times again.
Put it back on the ground and drove around still very little assist and a lot of noise. Get back pop the hood and fluid is spewing out the back of the pump.
I cannot figure this out. Everything is either new or remanufactured. I am putting the old pump back on tomorrow. If that doesn't work, I am at a loss as to what to do next. I have never had this much trouble with power steering before.