Power Steering Pump replacement

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rhythmnsmoke

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I have searched and no details on the procedure. My pws pump spews fluid everywhere when the wheel is turned full lock, and it makes this buzzing sound. It spews from where the pulley connects to the pump itself, so I'm looking to replace it. But I haven't come across anything on here where someone has turned a wrench on it instead of referring to the stealership to perform warranty work. Rather do it myself. Anyone have links for replacing it?
 
Don't think I have seen or heard of anyone replacing that part on the forum yet. Maybe someone will chime in who has had similar experience. Good luck.
 
It's quite straight forward, not hard to do yourself.
Remove the belt, drain the oil and remove the low and high pressure piping and you can remove it and install a new one.
After refill with oil make sure you bleed off all the trapped air in the system by steering full to both sides a few times.
Make sure you don't keep it at maximum steering angle more then 10 seconds as this might cause damage as well.
 
Looks like it's about time to find myself a seal kit as my car has 78K miles and looks like the fail around 80-90K.

For anyone else, details:

SEAL KIT-POWER
Part number: 49591-6C925

When i have decent time to do i will pull it and reseal the pump preventive i guess instead of waiting for it to start giving trouble.
 
Has anyone replaced the power steering pump on the 2nd gen models?

I have 70K on my truck and my steering is super hard to turn. cant find anything wrong with it except maybe the pump??

Infiniti wants $500 for a new pump and i would have my friend install it but i'm torn on what to do if it's not the pump.
 
Dsupe77 said:
Has anyone replaced the power steering pump on the 2nd gen models?

I have 70K on my truck and my steering is super hard to turn. cant find anything wrong with it except maybe the pump??

Infiniti wants $500 for a new pump and i would have my friend install it but i'm torn on what to do if it's not the pump.
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Sorry to hear your issue has not been resolved! If you are not sure about what’s causing the issue then I would take it to at least one or 2 others places just to verify. You don’t want to drop that kind of money and not be able to resolve the issue.
 
Dsupe77 said:
I have 70K on my truck and my steering is super hard to turn. cant find anything wrong with it except maybe the pump??
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Wow! For $500 I'd want to be sure. You can check a power steering pump. The problem is you'd need a quality gauge, an equally quality shut-off, and the procedure is potentially dangerous because these PS pumps should be in the 1500 psi range. The procedure is in the FSM. There's a pump rebuild procedure too, but it doesn't look like something I'd try.

You may want to consider the rack as well. I had a S15 240SX a while back that the steering got annoyingly heavy in. I took a chance on a steering pump because it was less than $100, but it wasn't that. It was the rack.
 
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