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Old 03-14-08, 01:01 PM
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85 RX7 - power steering problem

Can Any one give advice - The power steering pump is spitting fluid back thru the filler tube when the pump is engaged...any one know what is going on?
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I don't have any idea, but you can always remove the power steering pump all together if it's too much trouble, my `85 GSL has no power steering at all, and never did. Kind of hard making u-turns and slow speed turns but it's not that much of a problem.
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Maybe a bad pump, I have one if you need one.
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so you havepower steering on a gen 1 rx7???
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Originally Posted by Paul Loatman
I don't have any idea, but you can always remove the power steering pump all together if it's too much trouble, my `85 GSL has no power steering at all, and never did. Kind of hard making u-turns and slow speed turns but it's not that much of a problem.
Ummmm.. the racks are completely different between P/S and M/S. Just removing the pump doesn't turn a p/s car into the same spec as one from the factory without it.
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so you havepower steering on a gen 1 rx7???
Heaps of them came with power steering. Not sure why anyone would have wanted it, but it was an option.
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Originally Posted by rearviewmirror
Ummmm.. the racks are completely different between P/S and M/S. Just removing the pump doesn't turn a p/s car into the same spec as one from the factory without it.
No but you still retain the better lock to lock ratio, 1st gens have a steering box not a rack. It works fine without the pump, either block the outlets or loop the line to do so.
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so where will i find a power steering box for my gen 1 thats right hand drive???
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