well the other day i was driving and i was muscling the wheel around, and i donno why but then it started working again

well i found out later that i sprung a leak in one of my hoses for coolant and replaced part of it and rigged it to stop leaking, but for maybe 2 minutes i was without power steering... and it started working again that was a few days ago, should i be weary about it?

or just forget it ever happened?

 

same thing happened to me a year ago...i was driving and all of a sudden, i lose my power steering...

it hasnt done it in a long time...

my advice: write to "unsolved mysteries."

 

You probably got coolant on the serpentine Belt which was slipping and thats why your powersteering was not working correctly. If you paid close attention to your guages you would have noticed that the belt slip also caused your alternator to not work correctly and your volt gauge would have been reading around 11-12 volts instead of 14. This same thing happend to me, but I acutally sprung a leak on my AC system and it did the same thing one the fluid hit the belt (locked up my power steering).

Hope that helps,
Claude

 

Yes, you probably got coolant on your belt, causing the power steering pump pulley to slip on the belt.

Don't worry. Power steering systems are fairly bullet proof. You will know if something is wrong. There are hardly any things that can cause intermittant problems. Gunk on the belt is one of them, and you found that out. Normally, any problems that would occur with power steering systems would happen all the time.

Don't worry about it. Even if you lose power steering assist, you will always be able to steer the car.

Dan

 

Surely got coolant on the power steering stuff...