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Re: Steering
What's "gone" on the racks, seals or wear? I just replaced mine due rack end seals giving up plus a bit of play from the rack ends. I changed the fluid a while back because it had gone black, not the burnt brown of cooked dexron you see in auto boxes. Now; only my opinion: there is only one thing in a sealed power steering system that can degrade to black and that is rubber from cooked seals. I reckoned that these systems are running too hot and cooking the fluid and seals so I grabbed the smallest Davies Craig txmission cooler from Supersh*te on a 20% off day and installed that in front of the AC condenser. Make sure you get a manifold type cooler not the serpentine, much more efficient! You can pick up the PS return line from the solid pipe end on the chassis rail, put the supplied 3/8 hose out and back through the radiator support just above the AC pipe cutouts Cut two holes with step drill and grommet them: return pipe->cooler->magnefine filter->reservoir (mines a diesel); It all connects up as supplied but you will need to get the filter (highly recommended, and gives the rack supplier one less thing to try and knock back a warranty claim with) and two extra hose clamps. This can only improve the system but too early to tell by how much.
What's "gone" on the racks, seals or wear? I just replaced mine due rack end seals giving up plus a bit of play from the rack ends. I changed the fluid a while back because it had gone black, not the burnt brown of cooked dexron you see in auto boxes. Now; only my opinion: there is only one thing in a sealed power steering system that can degrade to black and that is rubber from cooked seals. I reckoned that these systems are running too hot and cooking the fluid and seals so I grabbed the smallest Davies Craig txmission cooler from Supersh*te on a 20% off day and installed that in front of the AC condenser. Make sure you get a manifold type cooler not the serpentine, much more efficient! You can pick up the PS return line from the solid pipe end on the chassis rail, put the supplied 3/8 hose out and back through the radiator support just above the AC pipe cutouts Cut two holes with step drill and grommet them: return pipe->cooler->magnefine filter->reservoir (mines a diesel); It all connects up as supplied but you will need to get the filter (highly recommended, and gives the rack supplier one less thing to try and knock back a warranty claim with) and two extra hose clamps. This can only improve the system but too early to tell by how much.
Matty80
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