Svenska_Monokrom
Professional Lowballer
- Joined
- Aug 15, 2016
- Location
- Oakland, California
I'm sort of a noob when it comes to the steering systems on 240s but basically my 1986 volvo 240 has had annoyingly stiff steering since about a month after I bought it (almost a year now).
I finally got around to changing the steering rack with a low miles one but after installing it, it's literally been the exact same. Correct me if I'm wrong but I would have thought if the new rack was bad as well, it'd feel a different type of bad.
As for more small information:
-Stiff regardless of how fast the car is going, when sitting still or driving.
-no real leakage that we've been able to see.
-we changed the power steering pump to the design with the reservoir on the pully.
-install was really clean of the new pump.
-tires are properly inflated.
Just curious if there's anything we're missing here, we though about ball joints being bad which one is kinda iffy but we're not sure if that'd effect the steering ease.
I finally got around to changing the steering rack with a low miles one but after installing it, it's literally been the exact same. Correct me if I'm wrong but I would have thought if the new rack was bad as well, it'd feel a different type of bad.
As for more small information:
-Stiff regardless of how fast the car is going, when sitting still or driving.
-no real leakage that we've been able to see.
-we changed the power steering pump to the design with the reservoir on the pully.
-install was really clean of the new pump.
-tires are properly inflated.
Just curious if there's anything we're missing here, we though about ball joints being bad which one is kinda iffy but we're not sure if that'd effect the steering ease.