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Hey all,
Lately my wife has noticed a bumping, almost popping noise sometimes when turning the steering wheel on her 2005 Pontiac Grand Am. I heard the noise for myself the other day and decided to jack up the front end and have a look. Almost right away I noticed what appears to be power steering fluid leaking from both boots on the power steering rack. The PS reservoir was low on fluid as well.
I want to replace the rack myself but I haven’t done one of these before and I’m wondering if anyone here has any insight on doing one on a Pontiac Grand Am of that year, and what I can expect. Hopefully I didn’t miss a topic that was already created about this, but I didn’t see one when I searched.
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Andy
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Thanks for your response Moonlight. I guess I should have mentioned that I have seen this video before. The subframe removal however, since it was being replaced too, makes his approach a little different than I assume I’d encounter.
When getting into specifics here is what I’m wondering:
Eric did a video on a power steering rack in a 2002 Cavalier recently. Being that the Grand Am was also a GM product like the Cavalier, is it similar to that process? From what I saw between my wife’s Grand AM and that Cavalier in the video, there are a lot of similarities between the steering components.
Would I have to drop the subframe/cradle partially as Eric did in the 2002 Cavalier video or is there more clearance on the Grand Am?
I suppose I could get the answers to my questions by just jumping into it, but I always like to have a little background first.
Thanks.
Appears to be exactly what I needed. Thanks college man! This gives me a pretty good outline of the process.
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