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:

 

RMD i believe is re-manufactured

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

^^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.

 

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.

 

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)

 

How many miles do you have on your car?

 

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