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Old Feb 15, 2014 | 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by 98DAKAZ
How many people understand you should never turn your steering wheel unless you are moving just a little???

Why it puts a tremendous strain on the power steering pump and every part of the steering system ball joints rod ends rack so on.

That's one reason your power steering makes that noise its not happy.

You must have movement to take the strain off all these parts and you know every thing will last way longer also.

I will say one thing I think most cars have way to small a power steering fluid tank way to small.
That's not gonna work when you parallel park 10 + times a day. I've had many, many, many different vehicles in my life, almost every make, and I've never had one that whined or strained the way the one in my previous Dakota did and this one isn't much better. At most I've always heard a slight hissing when turning the wheels without moving. But the one in my old Dakota was bad, even after 4 pumps and finally a Mopar pump the thing whined, but I've heard the pump used on the 2nd Gen 4.7 Dakota's are junk and are probably not up to the task of turning the front end right. Mine will howl even when going around a turn at 20mph, like on an exit/entrance ramp or turning onto a street at say 5-10mph. When it' sitting idling you can hear it just sitting there whining and whirring.

A properly designed hydraulic system will be able to do the work it is intended for without strain or whine. I think it is a poorly engineered steering system on the 4.7 Dak's. Just my opinion after owning 2 with the exact same issue.
 
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