All, I know its been posted that some of you drive without power steering on vehicles that the rack is blown up or PS pump dead, etc... I have already ordered my new rack, but its not here yet and I have a 400 mile round trip jaunt this weekend...I am going to remove my PS belt and try to drive it without for this trip... A couple questions though... My rack only developed a leak literally 2 weeks ago and I haven't been driving around that much. every time I go on a trip I top it off, but it loses a great amount of fluid with every trip. My first question is if there is a danger of this rack locking up from heat or friction or whatever from not being lubricated...I don't want my family in an unsafe situation where I cannot steer!!! Second question is if its worth moving my larger steering wheel from my non-PS vanagon over to this one for this one trip...I will probably be the only one driving, but if my wife needed to drive this in a pinch do you think she could do it? I have heard of the bicep pumping necessary... TIA... Dave 85 GL "Baby Bus" 85 "No name" |
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