Power Steering Foaming

[jay-rod]

Hey guys

After putting all my mods on my power steering resoviour overflowed and started foaming.

Power steering pump now Makes the "grinding" noise like its struggling, and the wheel is kinda hard to turn now.

What could this be.

A. Dodgy pump

B. air in power steering fluid

C. hoses

The first test i prob will want to do is drain the current power steering and start from scratch,

Ive looked around and cant find any proper guides on how to do that?

Thanks.

[Carbon 34]

Hey guys

After putting all my mods on my power steering resoviour overflowed and started foaming.

Power steering pump now Makes the "grinding" noise like its struggling, and the wheel is kinda hard to turn now.

What could this be.

A. Dodgy pump

B. air in power steering fluid

C. hoses

The first test i prob will want to do is drain the current power steering and start from scratch,

Ive looked around and cant find any proper guides on how to do that?

Thanks.

Air in lines

Did you jack up the car and start it and turn wheels lock to lock a few times to prime it? Use jack stands

loose hose ?

Bad pump sucking air

Water in oil

Use lucas power steering oil conditioner works like magic on noisy pumps found at supercheap

If your draining replace with lucas tranny oil if the car uses red tranny oil ? 19 bucks but works a treat and is thicker , works better in the heat and steering smoother

Edited September 24, 2012 by Carbon 34

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

It's definitely sucking in air somewhere or has air pockets in the system, is it still doing it? Hopefully it should start to go away.