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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: MudRat on January 15, 2008, 19:32:54

Title: Stiff steering
Post by: MudRat on January 15, 2008, 19:32:54
When i go thru a deep puddle, the steering is momentarily stiff and then back to normal, is this to do with the belt/steering pump slipping with the water?
Title: Re: Stiff steering
Post by: Steven on January 15, 2008, 19:37:19
belt/steering... with the water?
Maybe the belts slipping, maybe too loose? But I'm no mechanic...  :lol:
Title: Re: Stiff steering
Post by: fezzy192 on January 15, 2008, 19:40:20
i had this on my discovery and it was the power steering belt was shot
Title: Re: Stiff steering
Post by: python on January 15, 2008, 20:11:25
this happens in my disco too, also my battery light comes on.  maybe we should keep out the big puddles.  :twisted:. last one i went through i nearly washed away an escort.  :lol:
Title: Re: Stiff steering
Post by: Steven on January 15, 2008, 22:56:16
this happens in my disco too, also my battery light comes on.  maybe we should keep out the big puddles.  :twisted:. last one i went through i nearly washed away an escort.  :lol:
Just rememberd, 07 summer floods, we was going through quite a deep one and there was this voltswagon pickup stedly wading through, he then stop after my mother bombed past him in the Disco, must of flooded his engine... !? (then we went of, quickly... lol)
Title: Re: Stiff steering
Post by: extreme90 on January 15, 2008, 22:57:58
my 90 used to do it
then i fitted gates belts
problem solved
Title: Re: Stiff steering
Post by: treeman on January 15, 2008, 23:07:07
this happens in my disco too, also my battery light comes on.  maybe we should keep out the big puddles.  :twisted:. last one i went through i nearly washed away an escort.  :lol:

exactly what happens to mine aswell also the rev counter dies for a short while an jumps back into action, new belt for me aswell by the looks of things
Title: Re: Stiff steering
Post by: python on January 16, 2008, 08:45:38
i guess its time for a new belt for me too then, im due to do my timing belt soon anyway, just do it all the same time. now wheres that puddle.??  :lol:
Title: Re: Stiff steering
Post by: Yoshi on January 16, 2008, 15:49:47
Mine does the same, so think i should also be joining this bandwagon lol
Title: Re: Stiff steering
Post by: Range Rover Blues on January 16, 2008, 17:54:23
It's quite common, a new belt might help but TBH tightening the belt up with a bottle jack is far more effective.
Title: Re: Stiff steering
Post by: defuzz on January 17, 2008, 11:33:25
new belt and tightening might help but if you're splashing about enough to get the belts wet, I'd have thought slippage is a pretty certain side effect whether new belts or not
Title: Re: Stiff steering
Post by: python on January 17, 2008, 12:18:03
yes, but splashing is fun,  :twisted:
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