Re: Sequal: My car won't turn

[ChuckKuecker <ckuecker@mcs.net>]

At 14:44 12/18/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>today it got warm enough for me to actually do some work on my car.  I
>finally started it..........  BUTTTTTTTTT  i have power steering fluid
>leaking all over my tierods.......  my tierods boots were shot some time
>back ago.....  but i did not think it will matter much if i were not to
>replace it.........   somehow now......  i guess it must be the cold.....
>broke apart my power steering......  the pump is shot now i think?????
>there is now a really werid whirling sound coming from the pump and the
>fluids are leaking from inside the tierod boot........  anyone know what's
>up with that?????....  or how much it will cost for a repair to take
>place.....  i figured that somehow there must have been a water built up
>inside the broken boots and the cold must have frozen and made it
>impossible for the pump to activate thus causing the stalling.....now that
>the water is long melted away.....  so is my power steering.......
>
>
>help.......
>
>alfred 
>1985 8V scirocco

Sounds like you blew the seals in the rack assembly. This could be from the
cold, if you tried to make a sudden turn while everything was stiff, a seal
could crack.

If the fluid level is OK in the pump, it should not make noise. If the fluid
is low, it will squeal like a pig.

Does the steering still feel OK when you top off the pump reservoir? If it
does, the pump is probably OK. You just need new seals or a rebuild on the
rack. Having never taken a VW rack apart, this is where I have to stop
speculating...

Chuck Kuecker

ckuecker@mcs.net

'83 Scirocco (Katy's car now)
'58 Ghia Convert
'75 Bug
'67 Bug
'63 Bug (*still* for sale)
'91 Vanagon


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