snowman81

I have a pretty good idea that my power steering pump is on it's way out. I hear a noise coming from that side of the engine when I and turning and accelerate at the same time and I just replaced my idler pulley. My question is there are 2 different listings of the P/S pump on the website and I don't know which one I need. One of them says RMD, I'm not sure what that means. Does anyone else know?




2 06561-P8E-505RM PUMP SUB-ASSY., POWER STEERING(RMD) 1 2002 TL 316.94 237.70 Qty:
2 56110-P8E-A01 PUMP SUB-ASSY., POWER STEERING 1 2002 TL 358.17 268.63 Qty:

fsttyms1

RMD i believe is re-manufactured

snowman81

Do you think it's worth it? I've got 107K on my car (kinda surprised my P/S pump is going already) and wanna the next one to last a while.

fsttyms1

Mine was still good at over 200 when i over tightened the belt from the swap and fried the bearings. There have been a few members that have had them go. either is good

tl_badboy96

mine is still good, but i have some oil spots around the fitting. i can check at autozone for you and give you a decent price.

snowman81

^^Thanks Derrick. I might actually have mis diagnosed this one. I was looking around today and started actually trying to figure out what the noise was. I heard it at idle so I figured it wasn't the P/S pump. Turned out to be the heat shield around the catalytic converter. One of the bolts came out so I put a new one in and put some lock washers on. I should be good now. Thanks the info though guys.

@cUr@-TL

my pwr steering pump is bad.

my car is stored for winter and the other day i went to check on it, let it run a bit, etc.. and just like last year, the pump started making a hissing noise and then power steering fluid started to come out of the tank. If i let the car run for a while the noise slowly goes away.

i checked with AllData. there is a recall for bad lubrication of the pump's bearing... i hope mine can be fixed. i dont wanna have to replace the whole friggin' thing.

mezzerTL-S

I just replaced mine about a month ago, bought from wreckers with 60000miles... cost me $100 plus the time to re and re (about an hour)

snowman81

How many miles do you have on your car?

mezzerTL-S

Right now I'm at about 401k and change kilometres which translates to about 240k miles