At the risk of shouting out my complete ignorance, and in the spirit of trying to offer up an idea... ...maybe there is a blockage or restriction in your system, something that keeps getting better every time you go into the system, even though the work may have nothing to do with the blockage or restriction? The noise may have been cavitation in the pump if the blockage was on the suction side, or just the noise of the pressure breaking down across the restriction if it was on the discharge side of the pump - ? On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 12:05 PM OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote: > My DailyDriver > 90Westy+EJ25 BelowDeck has developed an Odd Issue > ~ > > Sometime during a return from SantaFe,NM to ABQ via I25 a few days > ago I Lost > > Some of My Power Steering Power ~ > > Last July I replaced the High Pressure Hose due to a Major Hole in > the Old 1 & since > > then the PS System has been Quite Noisy ~ Shortly after that I replaced > the PS Pump > > just in case it had gotten damaged in the No Fluid drive I had to do when > the Hose Blew ~ > > In March of this Yr I Replaced the PS Rack ~ Both Pump & Rack swaps > diminished the > > noise a little but still quite Noisy ~ I added this info as now that noise > is almost completely > > gone ~ I do still have Some Power Assist & I do get an Idle Bump when > Steering Wheel > > is Turned ~ > > Anybody have any Ideas ~ > > ORR ~ DeanB > |
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