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okay so let's take a look under the hood
here we know what started making noise
as soon as I started it up and I started
turning the wheel so I'm gonna go
automatically to the power steering and
as I can tell the fluid looks like it's
very low I'm gonna take a peek inside
here and see if it's Airy
oh oh yeah super aerated take a look at
that
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so looking down in there I can see a lot
of aeration that just Mesa Kaleem eens
that the fluid was super low it started
pulling air down into where the pump is
and then of course the pump impeller is
inside there are spinning around the
fluid with the air and they're just
making like this milky cream of air
bubbles it's really bad depending on the
length of time that this has been doing
this for your particular vehicle you may
or may not have caused damage to your
pump generally speaking if this has only
happened for a few seconds or maybe even
a minute and you came out and you saw
that your fluid was full and you topped
it off you're probably gonna be okay if
you went for a ride down the road maybe
a couple times during the week and it's
still been making that noise and you
just never got around to figuring it out
like I said more than likely you damaged
that pump in which case I would replace
the pump but before we do that we want
to check underneath to see if we can
find any leaks we made our way
underneath the vehicle and we're just
gonna take a peek to see if we can find
any fluid coming down as I look around I
see something fairly obvious right here
we have a little power steering link
looks like at that coupler where it
connects the hose to the line and then
goes into the rack and it's even coming
down so much that it's dripping right
there and big drip just came down but
we're gonna continue looking we want to
make sure that everything's good
behind these bellows boots there's going
to be a seal inside there that's the
rack seal you can usually just take
these off I'll grab some cutters this
one's already been off so just cut that
off of there
I'm just gonna give that a little tug
we'll take a peek inside here if you see
a whole bunch of fluid come pouring out
onto the ground you know that there was
a leak it's right on this seal right
inside there I'll pull it away so you
can see you look right up in there where
this rod goes into the power steering
rack if you see any fluid coming out and
coming down you know you have a leak in
which point you'd have to replace the
whole power steering rack this looks
good
make sure you put on another clamp or
wire tie whatever you can to make sure
this stays sealed make sure you cut off
the excess so we know the issue isn't on
here of course you would check the other
side as well and then of course you
would follow your pressure line check
all these areas right along here this
looks great I mean as you can tell it's
pretty new so that's awesome
another place that you'd want to look is
generally speaking your vehicle may or
may not have a power steering cooler and
if you do it would generally be located
somewhere up near the front either in
front of the AC condenser or in between
the radiator and the AC condenser
depending on your vehicle specific
application this one is located right up
in between the radiator and the
condenser and I see absolutely no fluid
coming out whatsoever so I'm really not
concerned about that I'll come over here
to the pump take a look at that pump and
just make sure that the seal right where
the pulley is isn't leaking if it is
more than likely it's gonna come down
it's gonna get all over your belt it's
gonna make a big old mess you have where
your lines go into the pump those are
nice and dry this right here comes from
the reservoir if that's wet obviously
this would be an issue everything right
here looks pretty great so pretty much
the only lift that I happen to find so
far it's just this right here okay so in
conclusion if you have your power
steering pump making that noise and it
seemed like it just just started well
maybe you can probably go ahead and fix
that leak that we happen to find whether
it's where ours was or maybe someplace
out down the line you can go ahead and
fill it up and bleed out the air more
than likely your pumps gonna be okay
but if you've been running it for a
while and maybe you just didn't get
around to checking out that noise and
you let it keep making that
noise as you drove back and forth to
work for a week now you bought yourself
a brand new pump as well of course when
it comes time to doing your fluid
service if you're doing the pump or
pretty much any time you're replacing a
line it's always a great idea to make
sure that you flush out the entire power
steering system with the manufacturer
specified fluid if you're just going to
be topping it off I also recommend that
you use your manufacturer's specified
fluid for this particular application is
just plain old ATF people might wonder
how come he's put an ATF inside of a
power steering system that's just the
way it is in this vehicle that's what
they asked for that's what I give them
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