jmcap
New Member
Hi Guys,
New to the forum and eager for your assistance. My adult son is a Mopar man and I am his resident repair and restore assistant, consultant , mechanic, etc. Our present problem is with the newly replaced steering box (power) in his 73 Barracuda. It's remanufactured from Cardone. After installation purged the box of air and refilled the pump. I have not driven it but son says that under load on the road and at idle the car feels as if non power. Jacked it up, repurged, and when off the ground all is well.
The power plant is a new 5.7 hemi, so the pump is newer than 1973. Thought that would be an issue but there was no problem with the leaky former box. Any thoughts to trouble shoot would be deeply appreciated.
ps. My scraped knuckle training is from my four Oldsmobiles. Please don't hold that against me. rayer:
John in NJ
New to the forum and eager for your assistance. My adult son is a Mopar man and I am his resident repair and restore assistant, consultant , mechanic, etc. Our present problem is with the newly replaced steering box (power) in his 73 Barracuda. It's remanufactured from Cardone. After installation purged the box of air and refilled the pump. I have not driven it but son says that under load on the road and at idle the car feels as if non power. Jacked it up, repurged, and when off the ground all is well.
The power plant is a new 5.7 hemi, so the pump is newer than 1973. Thought that would be an issue but there was no problem with the leaky former box. Any thoughts to trouble shoot would be deeply appreciated.
ps. My scraped knuckle training is from my four Oldsmobiles. Please don't hold that against me. rayer:
John in NJ