HalveBlue
12-06-2006, 01:27 PM
That's right, posessed.
This last week I got a hair up my ass and decided I was sick of not having power steering. Since I feel my arms have received enough of a workout from the powerless steering I decided to reinstall my power steering.
However...
Background: Back when I still had a KA my power steering worked perfectly fine, with not issues whatsoever. After I swapped in my S13 Blacktop I found a couple of leaks. Fixed those, and now my resvoir tank started overflowing, eventually loosing all the PS fluid. After refilling the PS resevoir 3 or 4 times I said, whatever, fuck it, and decided to drive without it (I kept the all the PS machinery like pump, belts, lines, etc. attached, just drove the car without fluid). That was about six months ago.
Issue: After filling up the PS system with fluid I tried bleeding the system via the instructions in the FSM. Everything seemed fine until I started the car.
HOLY SHIT! My steering wheel about broke my dainty little wrists.
Basically, as soon as I try moving the steering wheel either left or right, the steering wheel steers and counter-steers violently left and right. I mean, you litterally move the steering wheel .00000001 inches in either direction and it will move back and forth on its own something like 3-4 times a second. The wheels themselves rapidly move left and right about an inch or so.
So far I've done the following: replaced the PS steering pump with a known good PS pump; checked both hardlines near the cross member (all good); checked the PS resvoir; checked the lines that eminate from the PS resvoir; I even unhooked the PS sensor to see if it would make any difference, no luck. I unhooked the return PS line to see if the pump was circulating fluid and sure enough, all the PS fluid came pouring out.
I don't know what else to do. Anyone got any ideas on what's up?
This last week I got a hair up my ass and decided I was sick of not having power steering. Since I feel my arms have received enough of a workout from the powerless steering I decided to reinstall my power steering.
However...
Background: Back when I still had a KA my power steering worked perfectly fine, with not issues whatsoever. After I swapped in my S13 Blacktop I found a couple of leaks. Fixed those, and now my resvoir tank started overflowing, eventually loosing all the PS fluid. After refilling the PS resevoir 3 or 4 times I said, whatever, fuck it, and decided to drive without it (I kept the all the PS machinery like pump, belts, lines, etc. attached, just drove the car without fluid). That was about six months ago.
Issue: After filling up the PS system with fluid I tried bleeding the system via the instructions in the FSM. Everything seemed fine until I started the car.
HOLY SHIT! My steering wheel about broke my dainty little wrists.
Basically, as soon as I try moving the steering wheel either left or right, the steering wheel steers and counter-steers violently left and right. I mean, you litterally move the steering wheel .00000001 inches in either direction and it will move back and forth on its own something like 3-4 times a second. The wheels themselves rapidly move left and right about an inch or so.
So far I've done the following: replaced the PS steering pump with a known good PS pump; checked both hardlines near the cross member (all good); checked the PS resvoir; checked the lines that eminate from the PS resvoir; I even unhooked the PS sensor to see if it would make any difference, no luck. I unhooked the return PS line to see if the pump was circulating fluid and sure enough, all the PS fluid came pouring out.
I don't know what else to do. Anyone got any ideas on what's up?