TacomaJD
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I have the trail gear full hydro steering kit on my yota….link below. Need some newbie help.
http://www.trail-gear.com/full-hydraulic-kits
Now I'm still learning about this and have talked to a few people that sounded like they knew what they were talking about, but I'm still kinda trying to figure out the best place to start with troubleshooting. My steering has gotten really shitty over the past couple rides. It was fine when I first got the truck and has gradually and quickly gotten worse. Sometimes when on an obstacle it won't even turn one way if bound up, and it has never done that before. If I turn really fast on the trail, it acts like it bottoms out, makes the belt squeal, but if I keep trying to turn it, it will continue to slowly turn for 1-2 full complete steering wheel rotations in that same direction.
Scott Lang mentioned that it sounds like the pump is cavitating. I was like wtf does that mean, so I read into it and for those of you who don't know it's when there may be debris on the reservoir side of the pump causing the pump to strain while sucking the fluid, in turn creating air bubbles on the high pressure side. (or that's what I gathered that it was from a little reading)
Some have mentioned it may be boiling the fluid and needs a bigger cooler, but I find it hard to believe TG is gonna sell a kit that doesn't already come with a sufficient sized cooler, especially when it once worked perfectly for quite a while…plus this is the same steering kit Jamie had used on another truck prior to building the Toyota that I bought from him.
Pete from dirty south motorsports (I think) said he believes it may need anti-foam fluid ran in it.
I think Jamie had Royal Purple full synthetic in it and the only thing I have not mentioned is that I added a little (1/4 reservoir worth) of non-synthetic power steering fluid to it when the steering first started getting sluggish. It got low after a roll and a couple flops. Now that either could be the problem, added to an already occurring problem, or not even be a problem…I don't know. All I know is on TG's website it says synthetic and non-synthetic is fine to run in the system, only to avoid automatic tranny fluid and semi-synthetic blends. So I wonder if since I added non-synthetic on top of synthetic, it made it similar to semi-synthetic? No idea, I'm just thinking out loud.
I'm definitely gonna put a new belt on also as this one is getting a little raggedy looking and now squeals when first being crunk up sometimes, on top of squealing while steering. My thoughts are to flush all the fluid out, put all new synthetic in, and change the belt, then maybe it'll be fixed? Of course since I'm new to full hydro steering, I'm not super sure of the best way to flush the entire system of it's fluid, so I guess any input on that would be helpful also.
Thanks for helpin a newb out ;D
http://www.trail-gear.com/full-hydraulic-kits
Now I'm still learning about this and have talked to a few people that sounded like they knew what they were talking about, but I'm still kinda trying to figure out the best place to start with troubleshooting. My steering has gotten really shitty over the past couple rides. It was fine when I first got the truck and has gradually and quickly gotten worse. Sometimes when on an obstacle it won't even turn one way if bound up, and it has never done that before. If I turn really fast on the trail, it acts like it bottoms out, makes the belt squeal, but if I keep trying to turn it, it will continue to slowly turn for 1-2 full complete steering wheel rotations in that same direction.
Scott Lang mentioned that it sounds like the pump is cavitating. I was like wtf does that mean, so I read into it and for those of you who don't know it's when there may be debris on the reservoir side of the pump causing the pump to strain while sucking the fluid, in turn creating air bubbles on the high pressure side. (or that's what I gathered that it was from a little reading)
Some have mentioned it may be boiling the fluid and needs a bigger cooler, but I find it hard to believe TG is gonna sell a kit that doesn't already come with a sufficient sized cooler, especially when it once worked perfectly for quite a while…plus this is the same steering kit Jamie had used on another truck prior to building the Toyota that I bought from him.
Pete from dirty south motorsports (I think) said he believes it may need anti-foam fluid ran in it.
I think Jamie had Royal Purple full synthetic in it and the only thing I have not mentioned is that I added a little (1/4 reservoir worth) of non-synthetic power steering fluid to it when the steering first started getting sluggish. It got low after a roll and a couple flops. Now that either could be the problem, added to an already occurring problem, or not even be a problem…I don't know. All I know is on TG's website it says synthetic and non-synthetic is fine to run in the system, only to avoid automatic tranny fluid and semi-synthetic blends. So I wonder if since I added non-synthetic on top of synthetic, it made it similar to semi-synthetic? No idea, I'm just thinking out loud.
I'm definitely gonna put a new belt on also as this one is getting a little raggedy looking and now squeals when first being crunk up sometimes, on top of squealing while steering. My thoughts are to flush all the fluid out, put all new synthetic in, and change the belt, then maybe it'll be fixed? Of course since I'm new to full hydro steering, I'm not super sure of the best way to flush the entire system of it's fluid, so I guess any input on that would be helpful also.
Thanks for helpin a newb out ;D
