power steering pump overflowing

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nuclearlemon

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power steering pumps been groaning badly and leaking for about six months now. in order to save the smog pump (i need it for two more years), i've been putting lucas in when i top it off...and it's helped...doesn't leak near as bad. all's been fine

this morning, i fire it up and back it out onto the street so i can get a friend's car in the driveway and it starts dripping...badly! get it into the driveway and pop the hood...the reservoir is "boiling" over (not hot, but bubbling out). i popped the cap off thinking i'd relieve pressure...fluid is to the top and acting like theirs air bubbling out of it. the few times i've put fluid in, it's been on the dipstick, just low (never run it drY) and i've only filled it to the full mark.

wtf?
 
Is it possible for the pump to suck in air ( around shaft seal or housing).

I do know that air in the system will cause frothy expansion of the juice...
 
thanks, but no...that only covers the groaning (i know that's a failing pump), but no one addressed the overflowing reservoir

any other ideas? saturday is a wrench day...i'll drain everything and flush then.
 
I had mine overflow once, but the engine wasn't running. My driveway has a slight incline downward into my garage. My Land Cruiser was in the driveway and I coasted down the drive into the garage with the engine off. I did do a little bit of steering enroute, and when I get out of the truck, the power steering reservior is overflowing. I don't understand why, though...
 
better fix it. mine leaked for two weeks while i battled with a number of aftermarket pumps, before finally getting an OEM. the leak killed my air pump, and the guy whop replaced THAT didnt tighten the belt, so i overheated on the highway.
hammer
 
I agree with hammer. Replace the pump or you will be buying a smog pump as well. Get the OEM one. I just suffered a six month saga of going through four rebuilt power steering pumps and a smog pump. I put the OEM one in three weeks ago and it doesn't leak a drop.
 
Mine also "boiled over" before failing completely. I tossed it for a saginaw (albeit out of a volvo), been golden since. oh, I did have to buy the MAF bracket, tho. By that point I had gone thru 1 used, 2 rebuilt (1 durex) and wanted something else.
 
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