Beerax
05-24-2017, 09:39 PM
I have a 95 s14 with a 1uzfe swap on a stock KA trans and all the other goodies. Well the 1uz is completely stock other than an intake. Long story short; I'm about to be on my 4th power steering pump. It SEEMS as if the pumps are starving for fluid.. I will go through a pump within 1 drift event. driving on the road I seem to have no issues. It's just under stress the pumps cannot handle it.
yes, I am bleeding the ps pumps, which is a very weird process and may not make sense trying to explain what happens and correct me if I'm an idiot doing this wrong.
I usually will Jack the car up, go lock to lock 15-20 times with the car off; 15-20 with it running. I pull the reservoir cap during this process. At times with the car off going lock to lock, obviously I top my reservoir off but it seems to SOMETIMES fill up and overflow at times as well with a ton of bubbles so I think hey I'm getting somewhere; well 45min-1hr later it's doing the same thing repeatedly, 2 bottles of ATF later.. this happens SOMETIMES as well with the car running. Sometimes the PS won't work when I set the car back down until I drive it around a good 5-10min (had to do it with my last pump)
I've just been trying to gather up the little things it could possibly be before I look upon the very last thing I can think it may be which is the steering rack. It doesn't leak; and I don't see why that'd be frying my pumps in such a short amount of time but who knows..
One thing I came across that MAY seem funky are the lines from the pump to the rack (stock s13/s14 rack). If someone could show me which line goes to what or if it even matters that'd be great. I pulled the top line off the rack which goes to my reservoir on the pump. Like I said; it seems as if the pumps are starving.
yes, I am bleeding the ps pumps, which is a very weird process and may not make sense trying to explain what happens and correct me if I'm an idiot doing this wrong.
I usually will Jack the car up, go lock to lock 15-20 times with the car off; 15-20 with it running. I pull the reservoir cap during this process. At times with the car off going lock to lock, obviously I top my reservoir off but it seems to SOMETIMES fill up and overflow at times as well with a ton of bubbles so I think hey I'm getting somewhere; well 45min-1hr later it's doing the same thing repeatedly, 2 bottles of ATF later.. this happens SOMETIMES as well with the car running. Sometimes the PS won't work when I set the car back down until I drive it around a good 5-10min (had to do it with my last pump)
I've just been trying to gather up the little things it could possibly be before I look upon the very last thing I can think it may be which is the steering rack. It doesn't leak; and I don't see why that'd be frying my pumps in such a short amount of time but who knows..
One thing I came across that MAY seem funky are the lines from the pump to the rack (stock s13/s14 rack). If someone could show me which line goes to what or if it even matters that'd be great. I pulled the top line off the rack which goes to my reservoir on the pump. Like I said; it seems as if the pumps are starving.