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Steering pump failures, what’s wrong with my work truck?

JR4X said:
Texas 2wd?
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Is that a thing?
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Twice in one day on the same job...
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JR4X said:
I should have added punctuation.

“Texas, so 2wd?”

There aren’t a lot of 2wd’s in my neck of the woods. Even a lot of big equipment around here has 4wd. I used to drive a 4x4 F700 for work.
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Yeah exactly, I thought it was some form of "Texas joke" :lmao:
I have never driven one of those heavy 4x4 duallys but I can imagine they work awesome until they don't.
I can get plenty stuck with out it.
 
CarterKraft said:
Yeah exactly, I thought it was some form of "Texas joke" :lmao:
I have never driven one of those heavy 4x4 duallys but I can imagine they work awesome until they don't.
I can get plenty stuck with out it.
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Our corporate office is in Houston, all my bosses bosses are from Texas. Corporate Texans are a joke to me and everyone I interact with. You obviously work for a living so you probably live what I’m talking about.
 
JR4X said:
Our corporate office is in Houston, all my bosses bosses are from Texas. Corporate Texans are a joke to me and everyone I interact with. You obviously work for a living so you probably live what I’m talking about.
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Absolutely
 
JR4X said:
Do you know me? I’m not recognizing you by user name if we know each other. That question is either hilarious if you know me. Or ironic if you don’t.

In any case, PSC doesn’t particularly care for me. I buy a lot of parts from them but I no longer ask for their advice and wouldn’t take it if they offered it, we have a sorted past.
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Is that story somewhere on Irate or do I have to go trolling through the old place to find it? either way, sounds like it's worth reading lol
 
I still do my steering stuff different than what PSC Howe and Steerco “recommend”. It would take a hydraulic engineer to decipher what we got going on now. Just put the RadialDynamics can in our race car. Just won the last race with it. Pic shows more than just the RD can if you can wrap your head around it. My race setup doesn’t burn up pumps, actually it doesn’t even get hot.



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So in context of that it’s silly that I’d be asking for pump advice here. I don’t get to work on my work truck though. They don’t pay me to think about pickup problems, they have a shop bitch for that and want me out fixing problems that cost the company thousands of dollars an hour.

Except the shop bitch doesn’t “fix” anything. He’s a parts changer that is only doing what it takes to get it out the door with zero concern for how many times it comes back with the same problem.
 
JR4X said:
Well it’s been about 4 weeks since getting it fixed. Had to fight with fleet management to get an “exception” to take it where I wanted to have it repaired better. If it were up to fleet it would have gotten a cheap parts store pump and that’s it.

I had a shop put a Ford pump hoses and cooler on and flush the shit out of it while they were doing it. There must have been a restriction somewhere because the steering is a ton better now than it was the whole time with the last pump. I wanted to blame the steering box but that obviously wasn’t the problem. Guessing a blocked high pressure hose because the noise I was used to hearing sounded like a stalling bypassing pump not cavitation like when the pump is starving. Now I can hit the rev limiter and not hear any steering pump noise. This winter was rough on trucks out here.
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Should get a magnetic filter now to prevent future bullshit.
YotaAtieToo said:
Fuck, you get paid to do this shit? :laughing:
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It can be a fukton of fun, and get old all before the sun comes up some days.
 
JR4X said:
I still do my steering stuff different than what PSC Howe and Steerco “recommend”. It would take a hydraulic engineer to decipher what we got going on now. Just put the RadialDynamics can in our race car. Just won the last race with it. Pic shows more than just the RD can if you can wrap your head around it. My race setup doesn’t burn up pumps, actually it doesn’t even get hot.
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Three relief valves... you have my attention
 
Ted said:
Should get a magnetic filter now to prevent future bullshit.

It can be a fukton of fun, and get old all before the sun comes up some days.
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I totally get it. Being an equipment operator is no different. People think it's just playing with big Tonka toys, and sometimes it is, but there is always the other side.
 
Little update. The last time I burned up a pump it was on a day line today in this exact same spot. Still gotta be hard on the truck to get in and out of here but it does NOT make the pump squall to rev it up and hold the steering wheel straight. Not sure what had the restriction, a hose or the cooler but it seems fixed.

Cliffs. Truck was burning up pumps for no real reason. Changed all hoses and the cooler with the last pump.

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The fuck even is the point of a road if the road turns into more of a sloppy mess than the areas with vegetation holding shit together. :laughing:
 
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