Hey all,
I have a 93 4.0 Wrangler that has had a power steering problem for a while. Sometimes it would work and then out of the blue it stops working. Its never actually stopped working while I'm driving, only after I turn off the car and restart. I checked this forum and it seems like the culprit was the steering pump. So i went ahead and got a rebuilt pump and installed it. The "new" pump worked great but I still felt a very light tight spot. Today after playing some golf I started up the Jeep to go home, and I was blessed with manual steering again. I checked the fluid level and belt, but everything is fine. No leaks or anything. Could it be the steering box itself that may be bad? The jeep does have almost 200K miles on it. Or am I just really unlucky and became the recipient of a bad rebuilt pump?
That reminds me, has anyone been successful in pulling the old steering pump pulley off? I tried a pulley puller, a press, and torch but that sucker wouldn't come off so I ended up buying a new pulley.
I'd like to know if theres anyway to check if its the steering box itself before I go ahead and try another pump, cause I'll probably need another $30 pulley for another new pump since its impossible to get the old new one off.
My ride has a 3.5" BDS lift kit and 32" tires, with the stock pitman arm (the dropped pitman arm would have made the track bar less parallel with the drag link so I never installed it).
Thanks for listening...this forum is like the encyclopedia for jeeps. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.