Howdy y'all, so my power steering pump started to go out so I decided to tackle this on my own. Well I spent around 3-4 hours today on it and it's still in there due to how difficult everything is to get to. I finally got all of the bolts out that hold the pump to the engine, but I'm struggling to get the lines off, primarily the high pressure line on the pump. The pulley did not want to remove with the puller tool, but I sprayed it down with wd-40 so that should ease that problem. My question is does the hard, high pressure line's fitting screw directly into the power steering pump? Or does it go to a fitting that has a free spinning base for removal?

 

Good luck with the pulley coming off Tareed, when I was working on my timing components, I used 2 different types of pullers on mine and never did get the pulley off. Not sure about the line connector though, sorry, but I do remember a thread not too long ago on removing the line, I will look around for it.

 

Thanks. The WD-40 I used is their specialist rust penetrant spray so I'm hoping it'll get it loosened up. I appreciate anything you can find. My Haynes manual is pretty not helpful, and autozone has a walkthrough online that isn't much more descriptive. Normally there's stuff everywhere of how people did these type of things but there's virtually nothing for the power steering pump of this year range.

 

You positive your pump is bad ? not a normal fail Item... what were the problems ?

 

Turning is very difficult below 1000rpms with a grinding sound from the engine bay as soon as the steering wheel is slightly turned. When the rpms go up the turning gets easier. I tried lubricating the steering shaft as I had repeatedly seen that as a cause for difficult turning but it didn't even slightly help. Power steering fluid (Mercon V) was at the appropriate level so I decided the pump must be going bad. It doesn't change difficulty of turning depending on where the steering is at so I decided the rack wouldn't be the problem.

 

Good...just wanted to ensure you knew about the shaft problem..

 

Yessir! I appreciate you asking about it. I guess I'm just unlucky since it seems nobody else has had to do this... Or they're just smarter than me and decided to let a shop do it.

 

No... you are the smarter one... look at all the Labor $$$ you saved.

 

Well the high pressure fitting didn't give up last night but I managed to get the pulley off. Decided to go ahead and pull the fan and fan shroud to get better access and soaked the connection in WD-40 so hopefully it'll be easier today. I'm going to bolt the pump back to the engine to see if I can get it to come off today. The nut is supposedly at 48 lb-ft of torque.

 

Roger That !! good luck Buddy...don't strip it