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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17387   
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From the symptoms I would have thought that it is unlikely to be the pump and more likely to be the valves in the steering box. First off I would bleed the system (since it is cheap and simple to do) and if that achieved nothing, change the box.
Be advised that I had some very bad experiences with Genuine Parts steering boxes on my Disco 2 - the original box lasted over 130k miles then developed a small leak. Foolishly I had the box replaced during a service, the replacement lasted less than a month, replaced under warranty, replacement lasted until 1 week out of warranty. Turns out (apparently) that ALL genuine parts steering boxes are recon not new, and appear to be rebuilt on the cheap by incompetent people. In the end, I bought a s/h box off Ebay (from a lower mileage but older vehicle) whcih has been far better than the so-called LR recon boxes. I have also rebuilt myself the last leaky "new" box, there didn't actually seem to be anything seriously wrong with it, it had just been put together really carelessly! If I needed another box now I would go straight to Adwest in Reading, who manufacture them for LR and will supply preperly-built replacements (which I thing are cheaper than LR too). It is possible that I have been really unlucky and just had two random bad boxes of course. |
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18th Nov 2011 9:26am |
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