dare i say...i think my steering rack is shits goodbye

[DALAZ_68]

so i was coming last night from a 240 meet...as im slowing down to exit the freeway to my house, i immediately notice i cant turn easily...lucky im not an idiot who drives fast for no reason...
i was able to exit no problem man handling the steering wheel...
i make it home (was only a block form my house from the exit) and i pull over....turn my car off...pop the hood and notice my reservoir had over flown from one of the soft hose section (the one that leads from reservoir, to hard line, to steering rack...
at first i thought ok hmm maybe i over filled my reservoir, but then again ive had my p/s runnign for 1 month and some change...
got up today, i removed my p/s belt (to keep my p/s pump safe) and man handled the car to autozone, got some fluid and re installed the belt....
no change...
things to point out...
1. the reservoir line that leads to the steering rack had over flooded ( even though its clamped nice and tight)
2. when i removed the the p/s belt, the pulley on the pump moved like butter ( i was told if the pulley moves freely that the pump is safe )
3, the pulley did have a very very slight amount of play back and fourth...
4. when i try turning the wheel to the right its horrible and at the very last turning radius ammount there loud humming sound....
5. turning the wheel back to the left is a bit easier, but it feels like im hitting air pockets or some ****...
6. belt is brand new...
7. i ran my steering rack MT style for a while (4 months)...she had fluid in the rack, but still...
8. when i was running my rack MT style...it was never that hard to turn the car....my hands and fore arms where shaking...
9. when i re installed the belt to day and added some fluid i didnt notice any change from earlier in the morning...
10: when the engine was on the cap of the P/S reservoir it had a **** load of white bubble come from it and at the reservoi filling point the fluid rose up high , bout an 1/8 or almost so from spilling over the edge...when i turn it off,,, it would drop almost to teh bottom

anything else i can provide lemme know
so i dunno... anything u guys can tell me on this would rock...

[SexPanda]

id say its possible theres a clogged line somewhere, so all the pump is doing is building pressure and foaming the fluid and going all ape shit on you... Id check the lines first. Then visually and manually check your steering column. Could be someting simple, could be a costly repair. You just gotta look i suppose.

[s14_legend]

dang that sucks .... i changed my steering rack not to long ago...hurt my wallet =(

[DALAZ_68]

yeah...this shit sucks

[s14_legend]

pissed me off...luckily i was on the streets when it went bad

[Sr20det>Ka24de]

sounds like a rack, sorry

[DALAZ_68]

Originally Posted by s14_legend

pissed me off...luckily i was on the streets when it went bad

i was exiting the freeway man

[AznDrftr.]

damn, yea my buddies was going bad, i believe so, it does hurt the wallet.

[DALAZ_68]

im looking at around 120 for a rebuilt one and giving my core

[Xandy Boosts]

whoa, I didn't know steering racks could go bad. what happens when it goes bad? does it start turning into my civic (has no powersteering)?

My reservoir was low one time so I filled it a little powersteering fluid but found out I did it wrong and sucked most of it out and put ATF back in. Maybe I should flush the whole thing out now....

[DALAZ_68]

Originally Posted by Xandy Boosts

whoa, I didn't know steering racks could go bad. what happens when it goes bad? does it start turning into my civic (has no powersteering)?

My reservoir was low one time so I filled it a little powersteering fluid but found out I did it wrong and sucked most of it out and put ATF back in. Maybe I should flush the whole thing out now....

put it this way...my hands shake for a good 10 mins after driving...

iive driven my car w/o p/s be4...it wasnt this bad...