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There's a noise coming from my Powersteering pulley

Posted: April 16th, 2006, 11:50 pm
by Jonnyboy7002
Whenever I start up my car and have the defrost or any other accesory on, the belt/pulley? Also whenever I turn my steering wheel the whole way left or right a noise will come from the powesteering? And whenever i took a look under the hood whenever i had the wheel turned I notice the pulley stopped? How could i fix this?

Posted: April 17th, 2006, 2:50 pm
by twoie
pull the belt off the power steering pump and check the pulley for side to side play. Also try to spin it by hand. Sounds like your power steering is about to take a crap.

twoie

Posted: April 17th, 2006, 9:32 pm
by Jonnyboy7002
I talked to a mechanic about it, and he said that i should just replace the belt, and he said it should be alright?

Posted: April 17th, 2006, 10:07 pm
by 92mazdaman
usually when it sqeaks it means the bearings inside are not lubed and its about to crap out on you

Posted: April 20th, 2006, 5:18 pm
by reaper of souls
welcome to my world i think mine is just from the ac pump but i will most likely be changing my steering pumpo as well

Posted: April 20th, 2006, 5:22 pm
by mazdamx3sohc
its just an evil demon, get an exorsist.

Posted: April 25th, 2006, 6:45 pm
by reaper of souls
i've had a priet trip on ice in front of my car before and spilled his coffee on the hood could that count as being splashed with holy water

if so i think the demon is still in it

Posted: April 26th, 2006, 4:25 pm
by jrors
My 93 RS makes sounds also whenever I turn the wheels left or right and also when I start the car up in the moring, I hear some type of churning sound as well. However, I noticed, once she gets warmed up, it stops. If it's the power steering pump, then I'll just replace it when she does crap out.

Posted: April 26th, 2006, 6:15 pm
by ariesdude
My previous car had a leaky PS system - so if i hear a noise while turning i know its time to put more fluid in there.

So some of the simple things i would check/do maybe
-Check Fluid Level (Low fluid level is one of the easiest things to fix)
-Fill it with the right fluid (if you use the wrong viscosity then the pump might struggle until the fluid gets warmed up and flows freely)
-PS Flush (There might be rust,clogs, degraded oil chunks etc blocking the passages - the system might still have the 11-15 year old fluid hanging in there)