Hello long time lurker on here

Before you decided to replace your power steering pump things to look for first. i went through a epic journey to fix my issue and hopefully someone would find this helpful

If your car starts to make a whining sound when you turn your wheel.
check for cracks on the hose from the reservoir to the pump, usually it's a sign it's sucking air. replace the 2 seals from the inlet of the pump

I found a crack on my hose and had to use good old gorilla tape with those metal rings you tighten with a screw so air doesn't get in. but not too tight or you will crack the old hose.

like me I crack the hose in half and had to use gorilla glue and 4 metal rings
while I wait for parts to be order.

see below for pictures


Before over tighten metal rings<br/>





After my hose crack in half! <br/>

Replace 2 seals on the power steering pump.



this is the Weirdest thing I have encounter that i couldn't find on google or on here.

If you power steering doesn't turn and it takes a lot of force to turn and you don't hear any whining noise.

locate the power pump and unscrew the top section of the high pressure hose.

you will now see a pin in the middle. push it down 20 ish time or more.
i believe this is the fluid regulator.









Metel pin

after pushing it down a couple of times, I put everything back in and started the car. I couldn't believe the wheels freely turned from lock to lock! a lot of money.

has anyone ever experience this before?

 

My wife's CR-V whines like a camel that's dying while giving birth. When I get the time I will follow your recommendation and report back.

 

Also look inside the reservoir and see if there are any bubbles while the car is on.

should be something similar to this video

 

Rather than put some tape and a bunch of hose clamps, just replace the hose and the two o-rings. In your pictures, the power steering pump is clearly leaking, so you might as well get all the seals for the pump and reseal the pump as well.

 

It was a temporary fix while I order parts from Florida.
parts are really hard to come by in canada even at the dealer, they were back order for 2 months....in the 2nd picture you can see the new hose replace

 

Is it still working now after doing this? I'm having the same problem after a timing belt replacement and was thinking of trying this but if it's not a permanent fix I won't.

 

My 2008 RL whines a lot from the power steering pump area when I start it cold, but after warming up a bit the problem goes away. Does this rule out the power steering pump and o-rings? There is also no additional noise when turning the wheel.

Thanks