On my '94 Mark VIII, I've noticed that once in a while in long swept turns (like a long on/off ramp for the highway) that the steering 'twitches' and you can feel it in the steering wheel as a light twitching/pulsating pulling. It feels like the steering wheel is twitching/pulsing in your hand side to side slightly (maybe <1/4" either way) as you go onto on/off ramps, mainly it's been on slightly downhill ramps. It doesn't do it on curves on city streets though, and only once in a blue moon while on the ramps (about 6-7 time since I bought the car 3-4 years ago.)
I flushed out the fluid with a ton of dexIII, then refilled with synthetic Mobil 1at the end of '07 and it's not done it since. The guy that did the gears in my car took it for a drive last year and noticed that it was doing it again. He showed me it doing this.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago and I was going to bring the car in an alignment check and a few days before it did this a couple more times again!
One of the guys at work and I looked it over on the weekend (he's an ex-Ford tech of many years,) and the fluid that I flushed so nice and clean at the end of '07 is now getting quite black again, and it's only been 5000kms or so. He thinks this is a sign of the rack going internally and thinks I should be looking for a new rack. He doesn't think it wold be a pump problem.
Sorry for the long rant, I'm stumped to decide to replace the rack or not. I'd like to go with a Ford rack if I do, but they are almost 3x the price of aftermarket ones.
Any advice and suggestions would be great please!
Thanks
I flushed out the fluid with a ton of dexIII, then refilled with synthetic Mobil 1at the end of '07 and it's not done it since. The guy that did the gears in my car took it for a drive last year and noticed that it was doing it again. He showed me it doing this.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago and I was going to bring the car in an alignment check and a few days before it did this a couple more times again!
One of the guys at work and I looked it over on the weekend (he's an ex-Ford tech of many years,) and the fluid that I flushed so nice and clean at the end of '07 is now getting quite black again, and it's only been 5000kms or so. He thinks this is a sign of the rack going internally and thinks I should be looking for a new rack. He doesn't think it wold be a pump problem.
Sorry for the long rant, I'm stumped to decide to replace the rack or not. I'd like to go with a Ford rack if I do, but they are almost 3x the price of aftermarket ones.
Any advice and suggestions would be great please!
Thanks
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