help me please my 03 ram 2500 4x4 5.7 is eating power steering pumps up ever 3 mos it has had 5 pumps in 1 year it bone stock never been in a wreck can someone help do just bite the bullet and go to the dealer?

 

It could be due to your rack. Has it ever been flushed? Maybe it's got moisture or debris in there from wear that it's circulating into your pump???

 

what fluid are you using when you fill it back up? are you filling it all the way? i.e. following the manuals to fill it?

 

try some lucas

 

2500's use rack and pinion? or are you talking about some other kind of rack i hate when i get moisture and debris in my rack

OP- are you using ATF+4 for the fluid? thats what my 1500 recommends anyway

Maybe your power steering fluid cooler is plugged... might want to look into that... if you have one

 

XfeeJ, do you have a suggestion on proper fluid?

My 2500 '04 5.7 PS at the shaft is leaking after last month's fluid change and refilled.

Thks.

 

If its leaking at the shaft you gotta replace it, no leak stop is gonna fix it for ya. I tried it all. Lucky me had to replace powersteering pumps on 4 different vehicles, 3 of them were owned by me. Atf is a good fluid to use in any powersteering system.

 

Correct, manual calls for ATF4. Not conventional PS fluid

 

A band-aid that masks the symptoms is no way to correct a problem.

 

You should always use Mopar ATF +4 or equivalent fluild in the power steering pump, but it is unlikely that the wrong fluid would cause a failure every 3 months. You didn't say what the symptoms are? Leaking? Grinding noise? Hard to steer?

Again, very unlikely but maybe you just got 5 bad pumps? You didn't say whether they were new, rebuilt or junk yard pumps.

I would suspect that the 1st or subsequent failures of the pumps have left debris in the system and that may be causing the other pumps to fail. The only way to solve this would be to replace the whole system, rack, hoses, pump and all. The hoses will hold debris and are recommended to be replaced any time you replace either the pump or rack. I assume you already tried to flush the system and it didn't do any good?