Power steering pump front seal

[mdelorie]

Anyone else have one of these go? sure made my day! Anyways, turned out to be the front seal, cost me 200 bucks by the time all was said and done. Thing is, I can't seem to figure out why it went... It was hella hot here today, but.... I dunno, it just doesn't make sense. Because it was hot I was watching my temp guage all day and it seemed to stay in the safe zone. Then I started hearing noises from my steering, pulled over, popped the hood and found fluid all over the engine compartment! :? Kay, I'm done venting... thank you.

[JS91Z34]

check to see if you have a restricted steering line. That will blow out a seal.

[mdelorie]

and how might a bloke go about that?

[paulo57509]

I had one of those seals go in a new, rebuilt PS pump.

 

If the box says, "Cardone", I run away.

[The Burning Rom]

I've had the seals blow on both my 90 TGP and my 90 LE. They didn't go suddenly though. They gradually got worse and worse until I finally got sick of washing PS fluid off the engine, and changed them. I also had to replace my high pressure PS line on the TGP, as it was leaking BADLY!

 

And you paid $200 to have them change it!!!!!???? :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

 

I paid $15 for a new seal and $60 for the power steering pump pulley puller (say that 5 times fast ). It wasn't hard to change either..

[mdelorie]

I know I know.... :oops: Next time something like that happens, I'll do it myself. Problem was: I was working at the time and just had to have it done, right then, right there.

[GnatGoSplat]

I had one go on my '89 Cutty. It started as a slow leak that eventually progressed. I put some Power Steering Stop Leak and that made the seal blow out completely. One day I lost power steering completely and when I pulled over, the entire engine compartment was soaked and dripping in PS fluid.

 

I spent $60 on a new one from Pep Boys and had them transplant the pulley for me. It was a huge pain to remove the pump without removing the pulley first, but I didn't know about those new fangled pulley pullers back then. Anyway, Pep Boys screwed up the seal on the new one getting that pulley on there so I had to replace it a 2nd time.