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Subject First start in 5 months and dumped PS fluid all over...
     
Posted by blackomega on May 23, 2013 at 9:33 AM
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Message Had a problem with the Z and just wanted yalls opinion on what it might be. I let it sit since late January until last night I fired it up. In the meantime my son had been in there messing with all the buttons and electronics and generally running my battery down. It was totally drained of battery.

So I had to jump start it. Upon jump starting it, I did 3 long cranks. On the last crank it finally fired up and I soon realized I had no power steering. Upon backing out of the garage I saw a large, fresh puddle of power steering fluid all over the floor. I let the car warm up in the driveway for about 25 minutes where it proceeded to completely drain and left another large puddle of fluid. So with my limited knowledge of the power steering system, I can't figure out what is the bad part. Obviously it was holding all the fluid just fine until I started the car up and then it all poured out. Is it a bad pump? What do you think it is based on this information and what do you recommend to fix it? I haven't had a chance to get under it yet so its all preliminary guess work for right now. Just want to start looking in the right direction.

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