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sudden loss of steering, 97 T+C

was in town today with the wife+kids, noticed the compaas was playing up. Stopped the car in the walmart parking lot, well away from anyone else, put the compas in calibration mode, and started my loops. just as I was finishing my seond one, th stearing tried to wrench itself out of my hands to go straight ahead.

stopped, and pulled into a space, and jacked the acr up. power steering seems to be gone, but the fluid level appears fine. I see no leaks on the road (a baking 93F out there today) . About the only thing I could see or feel out of normal was something similar to Teflon tape, black, hanging down from what feels like some sort of cable loom, a little underneith the drivers side inside CV joint. I couldn't see any leaks, or hear any.

For the sake of completeness, its a 97 town+country lxi, with most of the extras, 3.9, and I was doing a fairly tight left loop.

Anyone has any thoughts on whats wrong, would be much appreciated. Hate for the wife to lose more than a days work because of it.

Reply to
flobert
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Take a look at the V-belt hows driving the power steering.

Regards,

Ralf

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Ralf Ballis

Its driving it just fine. Used a piece of chalk to mark the pully, then had the daughter fire it up - no binding there.

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flobert

oops, forgot to say thanks, sorry Thanks for responding.

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flobert

Ok, followup - got it up on jacks, pully covers on the underside removed.

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there appears to be some sort of pump, or something bolted straight to the second crossbar from the left under the cylinder, one of the hoses on the left hand side made a sucking noise when I touched it, Its thi area that the teflon-tape like material came from.

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flobert

OK, the pump element self it's very rare faulty, it could be a faulty valve or spring etc. O-ring or gasket. The only way is to reassembly the pump, clean it up, replace O-rings and gaskets and check springs. A manual with drawings and descriptions would be an essential help.

Maybe with you maneuver at walmart parking lot produce an opening of valve and now for some reasons it couldn't close.

Regards,

Ralf

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Ralf Ballis

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philthy

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