I’ll bite my tongue now. I got chased out of this forum for going toe-to-toe with some dude over something very trivial.
The man was scared. He’s entitled to use a little hyperbole. Safe to say he doesn’t think HAL took over his truck.
This is beyond terrifying to think about. If my wife read this post she’d probably not let me take ownership. Mine was built on 8/25 and I’m still waiting for it. My current truck is tried and true and for what it’s worth—has never tried to kill me. I really hope —when you get to the bottom of this problem,—you’ll let us all know What it is.
This isn't just "power steering failure". I've driven a heavy car with a failed power steering rack. If it suddenly stopped working at highway speeds, I wouldn't have even noticed. Most variable assists almost entirely disable assist at highway speeds, precisely because so little effort is needed to turn the wheel at speed and so little steering wheel turning arc is needed when you're moving at that speed.
I'll let this be my last post on this topic before mods get tired of the ping pong.
A failed mechanical hydraulic power steering system almost always fails in the "unassisted" mode, meaning the pump fails which means there is no longer any fluid pressure to operate the rack or steering gear. This would present as very high steering effort at low speeds, while steering wheel feel at speed would feel pretty much normal as assist is pretty much disabled at high speed.
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no worries, just a RTF (rich text code) conversion from your cut & paste
