SOB I'm tired of this!! We went canyon carving again last weekend, 80 miles total. I went to turn around and there goes the PS again... Rock hard.. It's find when I'm driving.. but won't turn when I'm stopped. Last time this happened, I bled the ENTIRE system, rack and all, and refilled w/ Valvoline Synthetic PS Fluid and it STILL boiled! Pump was whining like a Ford!

Anywho... Anyone have a write up on how to install one of the universal trans coolers to the PS system. Which line is the return?

I'm going to have to look into a Turn1 PS Pump.. And a PS temp gage.

 

I have never heard of this happening. I do believe that there is a problem and the cooler will only help hide it.

Do you have the OEM pump, rack hoses still installed?

 

Every 4th Gen car I have seen on a roadcourse has a turn one pump on it.



David

 

I just used a heatsink type trans cooler for my PS when my stock cooler leaked into my coolant. I placed it where my AIR pump was and just extended the lines. With this design, it didn't matter which was line in/line out. I'm now going to go back to a stock cooler just for asthetics.

Anyway, I'd defiantely look into a cooler before going with a turn1 just because of the price.

 

I asked about this before and they said the pump is fine for 2k RPM driving, but when you're in a race situation, turning 3k + rpm and steering a lot, the pump cooks itself. We were driving for over 2 hrs.

It's all stock PS stuff. No stock SS cooler. They advised me to install a universal tranny cooler to the return line on the PS pump. I'm wondering how to hook it up when I get one.

 

I would think that it would be as easy as diconnecting the return line, running new lines to the oil cooler, mounted in front of the rad and then running a new line back to the pump

But I could be wrong about that.

 

Have you not just looked into the factory style cooler?? I've tracked my car several days now, pushing hard on R-compound tires and everything (cooked the brakes pretty hard, on my second set of the season now!) and I've NEVER felt a problem with my steering . It's been working top-notch so far, and my car is pretty much bone stock suspension, setup wise (only mods, ie: headers, listed in sig). I'm sure there may be even "better" systems out there, but my car now has over 70k miles on it, and I've never touched the steering system at all in the ~5+ years I've owned my car!

 

I installed a Turn One pump on my 1995 last year and still managed to boil my fluid (Red Line synethetic) last year at Willow Springs. Added a cooler in line to the return line last week. I'll check it out on Oct 10th back at Willow Springs.