Hey all,
2017 JKU.
Well, I went after my steering issues again and have the quietest steering I have ever had now. The only time I can hear a pump whine at all now is if I'm at super low speed in a parking lot swapping the wheels back and forth and now I only hear it occasionally and very faint. Sounds normal compared to my buddy's jeeps. Feels pretty good too.
Anyway....on to problem two:
I've been noticed that if I get in the jeep, start it up and immediately try and cycle the steering wheel to the left or the right after the jeep sits over night (or for maybe 8-12 hours) it feels stuck. Like very stuck. Almost like it's locked.
if I pull hard in one direction or another it feels like it frees up and then it's fine for the remainder of the time I'm using it. If it sits a few hours it's not enough to reproduce it.
I generally park my wheels straight so I've been remaining consistent with this as I test things since the repro time takes so much time.
Heres what I've done with ZERO change to the condition when tested overnight:
Flushed power steering (twice)
Replaced pump (new seals on lines)
Manually primed pump
Manual Bleed
Vacuum Bleed (and tested at res. No leak)
Disconnected the steering stabilizer
torqued all linkages and lubed
I replaced the steering box last summer along with the high pressure line because I believed my noisy pump condition might be related to a restriction in the box. I also was getting a little bit of play. The condition didn't exist after this.
This problem seems to have slowly evolved after I had new gears, sleeves, unit bearings, ball joints, linkages and axle reinforcements performed. I also have 100k on my Jeep and haven't replaced drive shafts or ujoints in the shafts etc.
I had TF adjustable ball joints and linkage put in and have done a good keeping them adjusted and greased.
This morning I disconnected the steering linkage from the pitman arm and lit her sit for most of the day. I tested and there's no stickage with no load on the steering gear box (I'll reconfirm in the morning).
Since I had a bunch of the work at a local jeep shop and they have a few other minor things to make right I'm likely going to take it in and have them check it out next week if I can't make any more progress on it.
I'm wondering if there is something in the steering gear box that's suspended in fluid and maybe slowly dropping overnight but I haven't seen any evidence of this in either of the flushes.
Would I even be able to feel this if there's no load on the box? (Linkage disconnected?)
Anyone have any theories as to next things to try or of what is going on?
Thanks!
Dan
2017 JKU.
Well, I went after my steering issues again and have the quietest steering I have ever had now. The only time I can hear a pump whine at all now is if I'm at super low speed in a parking lot swapping the wheels back and forth and now I only hear it occasionally and very faint. Sounds normal compared to my buddy's jeeps. Feels pretty good too.
Anyway....on to problem two:
I've been noticed that if I get in the jeep, start it up and immediately try and cycle the steering wheel to the left or the right after the jeep sits over night (or for maybe 8-12 hours) it feels stuck. Like very stuck. Almost like it's locked.
if I pull hard in one direction or another it feels like it frees up and then it's fine for the remainder of the time I'm using it. If it sits a few hours it's not enough to reproduce it.
I generally park my wheels straight so I've been remaining consistent with this as I test things since the repro time takes so much time.
Heres what I've done with ZERO change to the condition when tested overnight:
Flushed power steering (twice)
Replaced pump (new seals on lines)
Manually primed pump
Manual Bleed
Vacuum Bleed (and tested at res. No leak)
Disconnected the steering stabilizer
torqued all linkages and lubed
I replaced the steering box last summer along with the high pressure line because I believed my noisy pump condition might be related to a restriction in the box. I also was getting a little bit of play. The condition didn't exist after this.
This problem seems to have slowly evolved after I had new gears, sleeves, unit bearings, ball joints, linkages and axle reinforcements performed. I also have 100k on my Jeep and haven't replaced drive shafts or ujoints in the shafts etc.
I had TF adjustable ball joints and linkage put in and have done a good keeping them adjusted and greased.
This morning I disconnected the steering linkage from the pitman arm and lit her sit for most of the day. I tested and there's no stickage with no load on the steering gear box (I'll reconfirm in the morning).
Since I had a bunch of the work at a local jeep shop and they have a few other minor things to make right I'm likely going to take it in and have them check it out next week if I can't make any more progress on it.
I'm wondering if there is something in the steering gear box that's suspended in fluid and maybe slowly dropping overnight but I haven't seen any evidence of this in either of the flushes.
Would I even be able to feel this if there's no load on the box? (Linkage disconnected?)
Anyone have any theories as to next things to try or of what is going on?
Thanks!
Dan
