Thread: Power steering groan to the left

Have a read of this thread:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-...full-lock.html


Sound possible?

Thanks Scouse but mine is groaning from centre to left lock. I do have a very slow leak from some where so maybe fixing that will stop the grown. Previous owner did ball joints so they are only 25000km old.

imo it's due to internal wear of the steering box, mine did it to the right side, but mine is LH drive, always the effort to turn the wheel stationary is a bit greater to the opposite side of the steering wheel, it stopped for a short time (about 20000 km) after i put a Bardahl Power Steering Additive in it but when it started again i replaced the box with a bran' new adwest one(i thought it's not a huge investment for the next 10 years as that's how long the other one lased), IMO the gist is this part of the description

Originally Posted by RAVE - Steering - DESCRIPTION AND OPERATION 57-11

The greater the resistance of the road wheels to the steering rotary movement, the greater torque acting on the torsion
bar and input shaft causing greater changes of alignment of the ports in the valve. As the change of alignment
becomes greater, the fluid pressure passing to the applicable side of the piston/rack increases.