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Okay, so when our KIA was sitting in the garage during our vacation to New York, the alternator rusted and refused to turn. I replaced the alternator, but was in a giant hurry, so i didn't put the belt on the power steering pump and AC compressor, which is okay, because i never use the AC, and i'm so gigantically macho, i don't need no stinking power steering either. Karen didn't like the no-power-steering thing... So today after i finished the roof (which has been waterproof, but is now totally snow-proof, and we'll never have an ice dam let water leak anywhere ever again) i figured that as long as i was dirty, i'd pop the belt back on the power steering pump.

But the power steering pump got messed up. There's a slotted shaft which has vanes which are slightly spring-loaded, and wipe the inside of a off-center (to the shaft) cylinder. There's inlet and outlet in to the cylinder... okay, i'm not explaining this very well (oh! i found a picture, but suffice it to say that now when i stress the power steering system, it growls and howls hilariously loudly. Sigh. I didn't even know that a power steering system COULD do that. I mean, everything, including the slotted shaft and impeller vanes is immersed in hydraulic fluid. Which is a kind of oil.

Oh well. I'm hoping it sorts itself out.

Did you do the “eat 1/4 of the cookie now, or all the cookie later” experiment? I was keen to see waht happened.
Hugs, mum
-- mum - 30 October '09 - 09:07

No… i was going to, but the kid got kicked out of school and was going off a lot. Tomorrow.
-- juanito - 30 October '09 - 16:01

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