Lost power steering

[Vincent Gelinas]

Peter,

I've had the impeller of the pump go bad on me before. Everything else seemed fine but my PS was wonky. I replaced the pump and it was back to normal. 

Chris down at Force 5 should have the part you need. He opens at 9 tomorrow morning and his number is 603.223.6700. 

Cheers,

Vin 

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> On Jan 25, 2015, at 19:04, Peter Elias <peter at pcelias.com> wrote:
> 
> As I turned into my driveway yesterday afternoon, I lost power steering.  Luckily I didn’t hit anything as I certainly wasn’t expecting the loss of PS and the resulting extra force required to turn the wheel!
> 
> The patient:  1990 Audi 100.   
> Mileage:   oh, around 345,000
> 
> The PS belt is still there, the pump is turning (and no strange noises either) and there is no loss of fluid.
> 
> So I’m a bit baffled.  The current PS pump is a rebuild unit (since Audi apparently no longer carries this as a stock item) that I got from Rock Auto two or so years ago.  Even at Rock Auto, I had to go through 3 different units from them (from 2 different re-manufacturers) until we found one that didn’t leak worse than the one we were replacing... (I mean, what’s the point of “rebuilding” when it leaks? ...sheesh...each time I had to pay the shop to install it...).     Looking at RockAuto right now, I see that  there is currently a rebuilt ACDelco unit available...
> 
> I see that the boot / bellows around the steering rack is torn a bit one side, but it’s all dry there.  Could it be some seal/gasket inside the PS pump that is the problem?   
> 
> Unfortunately I have neither the tools (nor a rack) to do this kind of work myself... and hopefully I can limp (around 10 mile drive) to the only place around here that I trust to work on this car ... but even their local distributors couldn’t find me a PS pump the last time and had me source it thru RockAuto....   I see seal kits, but no ready-to-bolt on pumps...
> 
> Sigh...
> 
> Peter
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