2002 TuRD

Wonder if the driveshaft out of phase destroyed the old one
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.
 
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Hooked up my remote filter for the steering and ditched all the barb fittings in the system. My wife came out to start the truck while I dumped in fluid, then BAM the seal blew out on the filter, gay. I probably didn't tighten it down enough, so fired up Amazon and ordered one up.
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Then I decided to drop the airbumps, that went nice and easy. The fluid in one of them was black and stank, the other one wasn't bad. I'm going to shorten them down to 1" of travel, and do the same in the rear one day after work this week.
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I'm tentatively signed up for a 24hr rally in April 2027, I'll for sure sign up next month. @Rnuovrcj5 build thread and my friends running that 1000 rally convinced me to try it lol.
 
Well f the steering filter, the new filter blew out also, so I'll listen to the truck and not install one.

Tore down the airbumps, now I'm waiting on parts. I knicked a shaft and tore up a seal head. I have another shaft that's bad so put in an order at poly performance that probably won't be here until after the holiday.
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Leave it up to me to rust out the inside of a sealed system lol!!
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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.
 
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@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 pull 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.
 
Get a magnafine it installs in 5 minutes, I wonder if you had it plumbed lower than the tank if you would have that issue, the caps are vented on the power steering reservoirs
 
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Get a magnafine it installs in 5 minutes, I wonder if you had it plumbed lower than the tank if you would have that issue, the caps are vented on the power steering reservoirs
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.
 
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