Could'nt believe it

clacker · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:19 pm

So this satuday, i was tryin to leave my lady-friends place and when i cut my wheel to back out, i realized i had no power steering. Turn off the beast, restart her, still no powre steering. Check the power steering fluid and the well is BONE DRY... climb underneath to find steering fluid saturating my driver side LCA, CV, and steering linkage... Look all over the fluid well and the lind connecting it to my rack & pinion, but was unable to find any leaks/cracks. Get it towed out to the dealer where i got it from to find that apparently its the actual rack and pinion that is doing the leaking :shock:

My first thought is "Oh horse poop, thier are definatly not gonna replace that thing under warranty cuz i definatly caused that on my own from running such big/heavy tires." to my COMPLETE surprise, they didnt even bring up my aftermarket work, ordered the part on the spot, had it installed by sunday evening and even convinced them to give me a good undercarage wash to get all that steering fluid off of everything... ALL FOR FREE!!!! ...im begining to actually like my dealership more and more. I thought FOR SURE i was screwed on this one. I guess thats one advantage to living in GA. where everyone and thier cousin that owns a truck/SUV lifts it and puts it on 35s

DirtyKK · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:30 pm

Well that's good news. Sucks your power steering went out so early though. How many miles are you at?

clacker · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:41 pm

just rolled over 25K... service advisor said that what seemed to have happened was that a seal failed and started to leak into the boot of the inner steering linkage and eventually once the boot got full, it began to leak from there. He also mentioned that apparently the 08s rack&pinion setup was a little faulty to begin with, and my replacement is what the '10s and '11s have in them and are apparently a little more "heavy duty" as he was saying... not too sure on the vaildity of this, but whatever, got me a new rack and pinion for free. Cant complain there.

RRiveraKK · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:52 pm

Sorry to here about the PS but great to hear they did that for you. I wish I had a dealer like that in my area. Well, at least it gives me hope that the service will get better all across. Thanks for sharing.

Boblemoche · **Posted:** Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:43 am

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He also mentioned that apparently the 08s rack&pinion setup was a little faulty to begin with,

now i know why mine blew up

i guess i will buy a 2010 next time it fails

DirtyKK · **Posted:** Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:48 am

ill go ahead and save for that too lol

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Thu Jul 01, 2010 1:07 am

Me three I think

Marlon_JBT · **Posted:** Sat Dec 29, 2012 2:16 pm

I hate to bring up an old thread...

But uh...

I suffered the same fate. Same leak. Same cause.

After $931.86 (parts and labor), my Jeep is back together again. And that's with my Chrysler employee discount. You guys don't wanna know how much it would have been to repair the Jeep without it.

Funny how I supposedly had the improved rack, and no I'm nowhere near 4"!

Could'nt believe it

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