Preferred brand for power steering pump?

MtnHaul

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Well driving home after work tonight my steering suddenly felt a little odd--kind of like trying to steer with the engine off but nowhere near as hard to turn the wheels. Although my p/s pump is only a few years old I'm thinking it is the culprit. Steering box is about 2 years old and the steering still feels tight, but just harder to turn the wheel. Sooo, is there a preferred brand of p/s pump out there? Pretty certain the current one is a "BBB" reman.
 

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Nuthin from the local "let me tap on the puter and get something shipped in from the warehouse" morons!
 

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Anything but Cardone. Seriously Id take a good used one over a cardone.

I got a cheap priced Amazon "used" (returned but unused) bare Cardone Saginaw pump (I reused the old reservoir) and it's holding up fine. It's been on there for a year nearly. But maybe I just got lucky.

The original pump wasn't even bad, just the huge O-ring for the reservoir seal. It's so hard to remove and install on vans that I didn't trust it's ancient internal seals so I replaced it. I kept the old pump as an emergency spare.

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I got a cheap priced Amazon "used" (returned but unused) bare Cardone Saginaw pump (I reused the old reservoir) and it's holding up fine. It's been on there for a year nearly. But maybe I just got lucky.

The original pump wasn't even bad, just the huge O-ring for the reservoir seal. It's so hard to remove and install on vans that I didn't trust it's ancient internal seals so I replaced it. I kept the old pump as an emergency spare.
I went through 3 before I got a decent one on my old F150. First one locked up and broke the pulley. Second one whined incredibly loud and the third one leaked like a sieve from the front seal. Only good thing was at the time I was working at Oreillys part time so warrantying them out was easy.
 

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I Picked up a Siganaw pump from an 87 van, gives better psi than a Ford pump, and rebuilt it for 12 bucks, simple hand tools. An o-ring, for the reseviour, and a shaft seal, and bushing I think. works great and been a couple years use.
 

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I don't trust brands... its a crap shoot.

Its either a reman (take your chances, and a core to return) or new (all made in china anyway - of what I can afford). I usually like to try a reseal/rebuild kit first.
 

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I don't trust brands... its a crap shoot.

Its either a reman (take your chances, and a core to return) or new (all made in china anyway - of what I can afford). I usually like to try a reseal/rebuild kit first.

That was my original idea, bought the seal kit but I didn't want to tear into the old pump to do the inner seal. So I dropped that idea. Then I ordered a complete pump+reservoir but the one from O'Reilly was assembled wrong, it wouldn't fit the bracket. They put the collared nut on backwards, it seems. I didn't want to risk voiding the warranty by turning it around and/or disallowing a return if it was still messed up somehow.

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So then I bought the bare pump for cheap on Amazon and used that. I kept the seal kit (opened the bag inside so couldn't return anyway) and returned the pump+reservoir.
 
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