jobforacowgirl
Jul 4th, 2012, 11:02 PM
Hi everyone,
My poorly mini has been off the road for a few weeks having had the gearbox fail on me (its an R50 with 5 speed midland gearbox), anyway... got a re-conned box for it and that's been fitted over the past few days by a couple of my boyfriends friends who had to remove the sub frame/fuse box and a hell of a lot more to switch the gearbox over.
All put back together today and the power steering isn't working, now this raises too many questions as the power steering pump itself was temperamental for a while a few months back until it was took apart and all the filings from the brushes were removed... its worked perfectly since then and up until the point the car was put back together.
I've checked fuses F39-41 in the car in the passenger foot well and none have gone, now this then leads me to the FL4 fuse under the in engine fuse box which appears to be a little bit of a pain to get to.
Is there an easy way to check for power at the power steering connection end?
I also don't think its the pump because when the pump failed previously, I was able to communicate with the power steering unit through INPA which told me there was a short circuit. This time I am unable to communicate with the pump so I feel there is some kind of wiring/fuse problem preventing the power steering from working.
Any help would be appreciated!
Charl
My poorly mini has been off the road for a few weeks having had the gearbox fail on me (its an R50 with 5 speed midland gearbox), anyway... got a re-conned box for it and that's been fitted over the past few days by a couple of my boyfriends friends who had to remove the sub frame/fuse box and a hell of a lot more to switch the gearbox over.
All put back together today and the power steering isn't working, now this raises too many questions as the power steering pump itself was temperamental for a while a few months back until it was took apart and all the filings from the brushes were removed... its worked perfectly since then and up until the point the car was put back together.
I've checked fuses F39-41 in the car in the passenger foot well and none have gone, now this then leads me to the FL4 fuse under the in engine fuse box which appears to be a little bit of a pain to get to.
Is there an easy way to check for power at the power steering connection end?
I also don't think its the pump because when the pump failed previously, I was able to communicate with the power steering unit through INPA which told me there was a short circuit. This time I am unable to communicate with the pump so I feel there is some kind of wiring/fuse problem preventing the power steering from working.
Any help would be appreciated!
Charl