pepsimax

what do ya get when ya cross a broken power steering switch and a hot cat converter,,i tell ya's a lot of smelly smoke..

got home yesterday and there was smoke pouring out from under the bonnet(WTF)

had a look the damn switch shit itself,,bugger man..

97ELGLi

i know someone that had an ea and the powersteering pump went after doing a fulllock, burst. smoke. fire. burned for awhile, fire truck got there, put it out and it was a wreck.

zbenga

I think those little switches along with the brake switch should be changed every 18 months :)

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EF Futura, XR6 spec head, lowered, T5 conversion, 2.5" catback, AU XR8 snorkle w/ K&N

There is a war inside my head, if I take a day off I'll die!

This cat, is cat, a cat, good cat, way cat, to cat, keep cat, a cat, idiot cat, busy cat, for cat, 20 cat, seconds cat! Now read it all without the word cat!

yeah right

What exactly do the power steering pressure switches do? I mean, what is their purpose? You know there's no pressure when the steering becomes unbelievably heavy & you crash because you can't turn, but I just can't fathom how having the switch helps. Also, what sort of thread is it? You could just plug the hole it goes in.

deankdx

never heard of one but i'll bet my XG will have one.

where exactly is it and as asked earlier what does it do??

zbenga

no idea what it does but had it been designed by me, it would sense pressure drop and would dissengage a clutch on the pump so one can still turn the wheel when the pump dies.

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EF Futura, XR6 spec head, lowered, T5 conversion, 2.5" catback, AU XR8 snorkle w/ K&N

There is a war inside my head, if I take a day off I'll die!

This cat, is cat, a cat, good cat, way cat, to cat, keep cat, a cat, idiot cat, busy cat, for cat, 20 cat, seconds cat! Now read it all without the word cat!

yeah right

Nah - the pump is a vane type so having an electric clutch on the drive side wouldn't help with that.

elford

we have an au2 that kept on eating the power steering switch and ford did'nt know what was goin on and we took it to them every 2-3 months cause it was leaking, so when the warranty ran out my dad got sick of changing it and just blocked the switch up and screwed it back on 1 year later no probs every thing works and no leaks.

yeah right

Sounds like it is a load of wank then, just as I suspected. God, I hate being right all the time lol.

deankdx

couldn't find one on my XG ute so i guess its just a low level switch? what is it switching