Can anyone please help me. I just recently changed my accords timing belt and waterpump and after i put everything together i decided it was time to crank it up. 5 seconds later after turning the car on, the powersteering fluid started overflowing from the reservior. I tried searching everywhere but i couldnt find anything. Has anyone seen this before. Could it be because i didnt set my timing properly for the front and rear balance shafts?

 

possible air leak? are there any bubbles in the PS reservoir?

It is possible that when you changed the water pump that there might be air that got into the system and went through your PS.

I know mine when I changed the seals on my PS and and gotten air I have an over flow reservoir.

 

oh yeah, there was a ton of bubbles. it was foaming out of the reservior. How can i fix that? Is there a way to bleed the air out?

 

that makes absolutely no cents whatsoever.


try looking at the power steering line and make sure you didn't pinch it between the mount and engine.

 

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Agreed. Check the power steering hoses.

 

Procedures to bleed air from system:

Start engine, let it run at idle, then turn the steering wheel lock-to-lock several times to bleed air from system.

But first, you have to fix what is causing air to enter the system (e.g., pinhole leak in hose, etc.).

 

There currently arent any holes or leaks on the hoses. I think this happened because i was being a brute with the powersteering reservior, i kept pushing and shoving it back and forth while changing the car with a new aftermarket belt. The new belt was a quarter inch longer than the orignal so i thought i was doing something wrong with the tensioner because the belt was on too loose. I will never buy after market again. I have learned my lesson.

I kept starting, turning the wheel and stopping the engine until the fluid stopped overflowing. As i kept doing the same process over and over i saw huge amounts of air come out from the return hose.

I was able to stop the overflowing but i still have a very loud noise on the powersteering pump now that the car is on the ground. Should i continue doing the same process until the pump stops making that noise or did my pump go bad?

 

did you also replace the seals in the power steering pump?

 

For what It's worth, the same thing happen to me the first time I changed the timing belt on my son's 91. I wanted to be sure that everything was ok before I put everything back together so I just installed the crankshaft pulley and drove the car around the block without installing the timing covers and power steering and alternator belts. The car steered hard of course, and the alternator light was on but the car ran great. With confidence that I had done thing correctly I put everything back on, but when I started the car the power steering pump over flowed. Not sure if this was a consequence of driving the car without the power steering pump, but I added more fluid and bled the system and never had another problem with it.