Stupidly light steering, PAS fail. Anyone had this?

[cliolord]

I have only seen one other mk1 Clio with this problem.

Basically, was driving round a corner and thought the car was understeering as the steering went so light. We are talking car jacked up at the front with engine running light Infact, the PAS is working so hard that is you set the steering to central when stationary and tugg the steering wheel right then let go, it will run around to pretty much full lock on it's own! The pump sounds like it's labouring constantly unless steering is central and central steering play in the rack has occured when engine is off.

the French, they love giving us something to do don't they :D

[kenny]

Is it the same in both directions? and I assume you were not carrying out the test on sheet ice? Yesterday I parked up, handbrake etc. as I got out and locked up a fella said to me 'your car is rolling away mate' it was slowly sliding down a big lump of sheet ice.

[A&P]

Seen this once before on a rover steering wheel can be turned with one finger, turned out to be the rack on that car. The valve block had stuck so not relieving pressure, might be worth checking.

[schakal]

it is the valve block on the rack as said ^^^
time for a new steering rack .

[Coops]

as above,pressure relief valve on rack

[Wobba]

Is this a mod I can do to my rack too?

[snowman]

Was mine the other car?

Mine did this to a point where it would turn itself

[cliolord]

Was mine the other car?

Mine did this to a point where it would turn itself

It's your old rack Andy

Yeah, I know it's the rack chaps, just wanted to see how common it was.

Wobba, trust me you don't want your steering to feel like this

[snowman]

lmao ah yeah you fitted the whole subframe.It was nice in some aspects as it was really easy to turn but dodgy at speeds

[cliolord]

here's a little video of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI6wI3JqOAY