rev up your engines today I'm going to show you how to replace a leaking power
steering pump now power steering pumps put an awful lot of pressure 1500 psi or
more the main seal behind the shaft here eventually when it wears out it starts
leaking fluid all over the place and really don't try to fix one of these
things there's so much pressure the shafts where install another one and if
you're getting one do like my customer did get a brand new one the rebuilt ones
are often junk they make noise they shot her in the past I tried rebuilt once and
they bit me in the rear-end either made noise or they didn't work right they'd
shudder when you pulled on them or they didn't even put on any power all they
did nothing so you're really better with a new one in this case you want the
autozone you can buy and cheaper online yes but who knows where they come from
what kind of a guarantee you're really gonna get stick locally that's my
philosophy when it comes to behind parts like this cuz if there's a problem you
can easily return it they got a great guarantee and let's face it they buy a
lot of pumps yeah this thing's from China but they know which Chinese
companies to use they're not going with the cheapest one because if they did and
they all went bad it'd make them look bad and they sell a
lot of pumps now on this Toyota Matrix it's hitting pretty far away as you can
see with my new fancy life if you look way underneath all this stuff a little
shiny white part there that's the end of the pump so we got a jack the car we'll
take the tire off to get to them don't try to do this baby from the top it
would drive you insane Jack it up nice and high stick a jack stand under there
take the splash cover off and voila there's the pump right here now first we have to
remove the fan belt which in this case has to be done from the top I use a long
extension and a 19 millimeter socket this right here is the nut it goes on
there then you pull it to the right to loosen it get a 19 millimeter socket
that fits tight these things are easily stripped sometimes they just break by
themselves anyone you got to replace the whole automatic tensioner
but in this case let's see what happens yeah
then we'll pull ya des god loose oh we just slip it off take it out of the way
because we're getting a new one you can see this belt is ruined it's all gooey
from the fluid leaking on it we got to replace this gooey belt now this is
gonna be a messy job so get a big pan to catch the oil when a fluid drips on it
you take it apart no well unbolt this bottom line take
that little bolt out this one here right here has to come off
they stick on so we get a big pry bar here's the screwdriver pry bar and we'll
pry it off because they stick in there
a little prying and that's why you need to pan underneath
there's a reason behind this there's two bolts inside fourteen millimeter get
this on and take them off now before you take the second bolt off on the pump the
high pressure lines bolted here there is a giant 19 millimeter hose that goes on
there you'll never get it off unless this is still partly bolted on you can't
see it because there's no film enrolled but this slips over that knot loosens it
it's a 19 millimeter crows foot wrench you gotta have that it looks up to your
socket so when you pull on it it hooks up to your socket wrench and when you
pull on it that'll break it loose it's hiding up in here where you can't see it
there now it's loose that's the hard part
then you can just turn the crowfoot end with your bare hand once you take the
wrench off it will unscrew and you can get the high-pressure hose out of the
way you'd never be able to get that off if you will to pull the ah there's the
end of the pipe pressure hose right here you can see it's dripping down now too
then after a lot of cursing and swearing getting those three bolts off and it
comes here's the old leaking greasy pump then we just take off the switch here
there's a pressure switch on top of the old pump we got to use that over the new
pumps don't come with a new switch and as you can see here it just screws into
the top here then get it super tight all right down your ball to pump on there's
no working room to say so you gotta do it blind
and you get the line and you stick their crows foot there
there's the crow fur right here and you start spinning around till you get it
snug then you put the ranch on it to tighten it finally to get it tight you
need it's super tight not much working room it's a dirty greasing job there's
no arguing that as you can see here here's the wrench it goes the whole way and
then you just you want it super tight you don't want that leaking now comes
the fun of putting a new fan belt on because the old one was covered in oil I
of course have a data system so I printed out a picture you can look it up
online or before you do this job take a picture of where they are it's kind of
hard to see from the top so it's better to take a picture off the internet so
you know where it goes there's only one belt and it goes all over the freaking
place they don't want you snapping on butch was one heck of a job I actually
had to get a helper on this one to pull on the pipe because you got to
pull on the pipe and snap the belt on at the same time which is virtually
impossible with a new belt the old belt stretched it comes off with the new ones
are done so with one guy pulling and me pushing on the bottom we finally got it
on and we'll fill it up with power steering fluid just pour it in and then you
have to bleed the air out so leave it jacked up in the air started off and
turn the wheel
then top up the fluid
you gotta put the middle line middle line cold top line huh and I'm turning
the wheel back and forth to bleed off the air toyotas generally bleed really
fast you didn't even hear it which they
often do when you bleed the air out this thing's all bled out now we're
ready to go we just put the wheel back on take it
down and away we go so next time your power steering pump
starts leaking why not fix it yourself, so if you never want to miss another one
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