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Old 07-30-2008, 11:01 PM
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yeah i was lost did not see anything about dsc either haha
Old 07-30-2008, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted by m108kos
-incredible cleaning of connections with electric cleaner and then pressurized air
-some die-electric grease to the connection prongs
-new fuse

*took apart the fuse housing for the EPS (60A) and all its components and cleaned vigorously then added some grease.
Good to hear... now we'll see for how long!
Sorry man... been there too where I thought I figured it out and it failed several days later.
I just hope this works out permanently for you!
Keep us posted!
Old 09-10-2008, 08:57 PM
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back again

Originally Posted by Jon316G
Good to hear... now we'll see for how long!
Sorry man... been there too where I thought I figured it out and it failed several days later.
I just hope this works out permanently for you!
Keep us posted!

well you were right when you said well see for how long. its been good since 7/30/08 until the past monday. i drove about 15 minutes/20 miles, shut the car off for 15 minutes and upon restart it failed. moved the car 1000 feet to another parking spot, shut it down for probably another 15 minutes and it worked fine upon restart. a few days passed with no problems and then tonight i drove the car for 15 miles/ 20 minutes shut it down for probably a half hour and failed upon first restart, second restart and finally came back on third restart. checked the fuse and it seems good.. going to check connections if i have one more problem.
Old 09-10-2008, 11:24 PM
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Might be time to start looking at one of the other solutions.
Don't be like me and spend the first month with contact cleaner in the truck just waiting for the power steering to fail before I soldered the wires together.
If the fuse blew, the PS would never come back until it is replaced.
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Hi, I don't remember who did I read this repair from, but I had my PS hard and followed someones instructions on how to fix it, and I did it 2 days Ago. TKS, Appreciate very much.
I followed this members to the letter and it was fixed. For Now of courser, I hoe it don't bother me anymore.
I cleaned the Racks Plugs, and that was it.
Tks
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I have had problems with the connectors in the ECU case ( between the EPS control unit and harnesses ) as well...you might want to clean lube them as well
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Originally Posted by dannobre
I have had problems with the connectors in the ECU case ( between the EPS control unit and harnesses ) as well...you might want to clean lube them as well


Will Check this as well.
Tks
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