Hubbard 0 said:

Mini Coopers and I believe the Cobalt SS/Ion Redline had Electric P.S. pumps.

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99gst_racer said:

I picked up one of the Renault Clio electric pumps from Israel and a brand new rack. It was expensive, but should make for a kick-ass steering set-up. It's going to be exactly like gixxerdrew's PS set-up on his 2G.

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spydur8385 said:

If decoder22 was on ebay he would get neutral feedback from me because they/he lied about when it was shipped out.

I ordered my de-powered powersteering rack from Midwest Street Performance who posts as decoder22 on august 30th 2010 , I was told that I would receive a tracking number in my email in the next day or 2 . I did not get an email so I called back on friday september 3rd and got the answering machine , I left a message. The shop called me back on Monday september 6th and told me they shipped it out last thursday or friday and just been to busy to send me any tracking information and told me I should get it during the week of september 6th-10th. I didnt receive any packages so I called them back on monday september 13th , they said they dont know why I have not got it yet and are digging thru their tracking numbers to figure out were my rack is. Well today is wednesday september 15th and I finally received my manual rack , and after running the tracking number I find out it was shipped from them on friday september 10th .

So overall I received the rack 17 days after I ordered it , and paid 230$ for it shipped to my door .

I went out tonight september 15th and installed it on the car , it is pretty straight forward on installing it , just unbolt the old bolt in the new. The car is in the middle of a 6 bolt swap so I have not got to drive on it yet , I'll post an update on how it feels after I get it back on the road in the next couple of days.

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awdwhip said:

Update, after 2 yrs of having this rack installed and a combined 10 months of my car sitting due to deployment, my rack gave out. I THINK the splines stripped and if it would have happened out on the highway I would have probably caused an accident. Luckly, It happened leaving a parking lot and about halfway through the turn all the splines stripped and I couldn't steer the car at all. We had to manually turn the wheels by hand to move the car to the parking lot next to where I lost my steering.

Now, all I hear when I turn the steering wheel is metal on metal. I will be dropping the rack this weekend to see what actually happened and hopefully my steering column isnt f-ed too. We'll see...

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Hubbard 0 said:

Mini Coopers and I believe the Cobalt SS/Ion Redline had Electric P.S. pumps.

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mnetwork said:

Very good to hear you weren't on the road or in the middle of a pull when this happened. Post some pics when you pull the rack.

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awdwhip said:

Thanks. After further investigation, thanks Kris and Corey, I found out that the bolt that clamps the steering column to the pinion had backed out and fallen off which cause me to lose all steering.

I now know the reason why it happened, too. When I did the rack swap and slid the pinion into the steering column I forgot to tighten the bolt down which cause about 2" of slop in the steering before the car actual started to turn. The car still steered just fine aside from that though. Over time the bolt must have backed out from me not tightening it down all the way and from the vibrations of the car. I feel like an idiot for not having done so but I'm glad nothing serious happened and that I got to keep some money in my pocket.

All I did to fix the issue was to line up the steering wheel with the wheels straight, I then used a long unused 12mm bolt that we found in my engine bay to tighten the column to the pinion. That's why our keep extra bolts in misc places

I did a lock to lock test with the car standing still to test the steering. All was good and I then drove it home. I was paranoid the whole way but I'm sure with a few days of driving ill regain the trust of the steering once again. Everything is good...for now


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glowryder said:

From what ive been reading/hearing recently, turn around is 3-5 weeks..

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awdwhip said:

I'm done with the install but i'm too tired to post about it and I'm gonna get an alignment tomorrow if not Monday.

Then I'll drive it around some more and report back.

So far without an alignment the steering feels like shit and the car is extremely hard to turn even when going through the parking lot.

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