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    steering fade

    Ive posted about this before but never really got back to everyone after trying their solutions....when i first start up my car the steering is fine but once it warms up its like i have no power steering. if i rev the engine in nuetral it turns fine..what is causing this?

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    check the lines of yout power steering fluid... making sure it's not in contact with something that is boiling them.
    Assuming you have enough fluid... maybe the belt isn't making the pump work well... did you put an underdrive pulley ?
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    ill check the lines this weekend. the pump seems fine as i have taken the belt off and the pulley spins fine. the fluid level is full

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    How many miles do you have on that pump? If your fluid is full and fresh and you dont have any line heating isues you may want to make sure you don't have a line that has swelled up and may be restricting fluid flow to or from the rack. Naturally the faster you spin the pump the more pressure you will have to power the rack. Check any ruber sections in the lines if there are any. If you don't find anything it may be time for a pump.

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    the car has 460000 on it but it has sat for quite a while before i got it. i changed the end links as well as the rack but no change so next i will check the lines and let you know. i plan to get under the car sunday

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    i would have said low fluid

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    Well he changed the rack so that would mean he would have had to have low fluid twice. I don't have steering fade but I have been chasseing (literally) the front end on my car. It likes to Dart like crazy and I have changed just about everything except the lines, pump, and steering column. lol still no luck. I need to take it and get another alignment done to new specs and see if that helps.

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    Do you have any pump whine?

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    i got under the car last weekend and there was nothing hitting the headers and so i bled the lines and still nothing ...so... this weekend i replaced the pump and it seems to have fixed the problem.

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    Awesome.. how in gods name does it have 460,000 miles?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JoshieDoom View Post
    Awesome.. how in gods name does it have 460,000 miles?
    i thought the same.. typo?

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    haha lol ya my bad the car has 46,000 miles I guess a lil less than 460,000 but thats why im not an accountant lol

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    hahah I was going to say mine has 157k and if that bastard is stock then it was worth every penny... im in the debate of deleting PS(new rack regardless) or upgrading to turn one.

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