RE: Power steering - '89 Audi 100

["Avi Meron" <avi@cosmoslink.net>]

You might have an OLD PS pump, the old power steering pump will fit but will
not give you the same assist, you must have a 034 part # on the pump, the
034 has higher capacity,
Avi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]On Behalf Of David Boyd
> Sent: Sunday, June 21, 1998 2:40 PM
> To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: Power steering - '89 Audi 100
>
>
> I quite recently bought this auto. with a very leaky PS pump,
> which I replaced
> with one from a salvage yard.
>
> But Increasingly now, power assistance fades to next to nought at
> slow speeds
> and heavy turns, eg., when parking, but is OK when engine speed
> increases. All
> else seems normal - no leaks, belt recently replaced etc.
>
> Any suggestions - just a tired replacement pump ? bad bomb ? -
> though again, no
> other brake etc. symptoms. All I can think of otherwise is that  I read
> somewhere on the list that the banjo connectors are not
> interchangeable between
> different years of pumps, and I suppose I may have mixed these up
> when I changed
> the pumps.
>
> Thanks
>
> David
>
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