Nah. Its a factory Toyota rubber mount that I bought new in 2008, it sat in a box in my garage until 2019 when I finally installed it, and it's been seeing 4,000 ft lbs of torque in double low since then, so it was just roached due to old age and abuse.
Yes per his post in another thread. But that filter should hold pressure, an oil filter will easily hold 80psi. He should be near 100 psi on the high pressure side, so it’s likely overheating and the boiling fluid is over pressurizing
@paradisePWoffrd This is on initial startup, runs for a few seconds then it blows when I assume it sees an air slug hit the filter housing. Heat should not be an issue at all. Even filling the filter and housing up it still blew. Either way I removed it since that will be in the back of my mind whenever I'm driving, especially if I have to trail repair the steering system for whatever reason. The hoses were on the correct inlet of the housing as well. After pulling everything off and hooking it up the old way, the steering system fully bled in a few mins like it normally did.
That is wild. Shouldnt have been an issue, but I am with you on ditching it.
Yea man I'm stumped.
Yea, I don't know. It would have to bleed back through the steering box and pump to get back to the res, it actually sits kind of below the res. I filled the res up with fluid and let it sit for a week thinking along the same lines, still popped. Once I get everything else sorted on the truck, I'll take this housing apart and see what's going on with it. It was start truck, fluid gets sucked down, I start pouring fluid in and bam! In about as long as it took to read that.
I have one of the fancy radial dynamics self bleeding reservoirs, so it's normally fire it up, fill it up after the fluid level drops, and watch the bubbles for a few mins, turn the wheels a few times, see if it needs more fluid and shut it down, done in about 5-10mins. I figured filling the housing and filter up with the fluid syringe would work, I guess not. Best it blowing up in my garage than at WOT on the trail and burning my truck down!