Re: Auto Shop Catalog, Pwr steering gear

["Tom Harais" <tjhemh@domain.elided>]

Mark:

I've never rebuilt a P/S pump. My friends an I always just bought a
rebuilt. But then, one day a good freind said he had broke down and bought
a rebuild kit and did it himself. He said there was nothing to it and kit
cost only $12.00 Said it took him about four hours total including removal,
but not installation. This was on a Cherokee. Told me it wasn't leaking a
drop either, after a few thousand miles.

The rebuilts we buy always seem to have about a two year life.

Hey, I just talked to my mechanic at the local service center because
Elza's Trans Am was making a loud growling out of what I thought was the PS
pump. Turns out it was alternator bearings and he is trying to find an
alternator to replace that one with right now. I just replaced that
alternator two years ago it seems. Ain't that always the case.

I want to start doing this the J. Stricker way. Put in a new Japanese unit
and have my replacements last as long as the original (about 10 or 12
years). But, it seems that things always fail when I don't have time or in
a place, where I cannot get them how I want. I have been unable to find new
alternators of any kind, only rebuilts.

Of course, I think it was someone on this list that said if you replaced
the bearings in your alternator every five years or so, you'd never have
the alternator go out on you either. But, it seems like it takes a
breakdown to remind me to do that. :-)

Tom H.