intermittent power steering & brake failure?
Well we have had the worst luck with our 2001 dmax. It's usually a problem a month and this month is no exception.
Recently we have been noticing that after about 45 mins of highway driving, the first time you hit traffic or a city and come on to the brakes to stop, we loose power steering and power brakes.
You can get stopped and steer through it and then all of a sudden it will let go and kick back in. it will do this a few times only when you come to a stop and then quit.
If you don't go on long drives at higher speeds it's fine.
this winter one of the idler pulleys came off while driving and we lost power brakes and steering. We muscled it home and replaced the part quite easily but my initial thought was something to do with this , maybe the belt not tight enough?
The other concern was that we just had two seperate mechanics tear things apart to replace the pipe leading into the water pump and then a second mechanic replaced the water pump after the first one misdiagnosed the problem. Is it possible they didn't tighten a line enough or something. it doesn't seem to be leaking that we can tell.
anyone encounter this situation?
Last edited by Horse_gal_jen; 05-12-2008 at 15:24.
2001 Chevy silverado 2500HD 4x4, crew cab,5-speed Allison, 6.6 Duramax
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