Power Steering Trouble

[TTS1996]

Needing some help with power steering, my pump was leaking and so were both lines, i replaced them and added fluid and the steering is hard. It steered fine before, but now it wont steer hardly at all unless i wind up the motor. Is there a bleeding process? I have yet to find one or anyone that knows

 

[Steve's Chevy]

I just replaced my PS pump, lines and box and yes you have to bleed them. I jacked up the truck ( wheels off the ground )and turned lock to lock about twenty times before I even fired it up........

 

[TTS1996]

Its been turned alot up on jacks, been driven 100 miles or so since being replaced so its been turned several times. What gets me is the fact that i have to wind it up to turn it wether on jacks or not.

 

[someotherguy]

New pump (guessing it's a rebuilt?) is probably crap, or it crapped out during your bleed procedure - if it wasn't ready to go, and you revved it up to turn, that would be enough.

From the GM C/K manual...it's not exactly what most people do, but I do it the way GM says -

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Richard

 

[TTS1996]

Hey thanks for that. But if it is broken, why does it work fine at higher rpm's?

 

[IOWNJUNK]

That sounds like a restriction in one of the lines. You might have a kinked or bent line somewhere.