No power steering to the right

[93idi]

My power steering while turning the wheels to the right seems to have gone out. It still steers with power to the left, but to the right it's like the engine is not even running. I jacked up the front and popped the joint that connects to the pittman to make sure that there wasn't any thing binding in the front, which I didn't think there was because it doesn't make noise like when you hit the bump stop. My question is wheather this is more likly to be a pump problem or a steering gear problem? Oh, and yes I checked to see if the fluid was low.

[OkieGringo]

Sounds like a valve problem in the steering box. Lotsa fun to replace. I'm gonna hafta do it soon cuz mine leaks like a sieve. The only thing that leaks on my truck [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shrug.gif[/img]. OkieGringo

[James Keveson]

The hardest part of replacing the steering box is the lines. The rest is cake. when I did mine I also replaced the pump and lines. I removed the low pressure cooling line and replaced it with a small trans cooler. The low pressure one is the one that goes under the motor on front of the crossmember . The high pressure side I replaced with a aftermarket OE replacment. The box is held on by 3 bolts from the wheelwell/outside of frame infront of the tire. easy to get to . Undoing the 2 cooler lines is the hardest part.
JamesK.

[Mr_Roboto]

It could be a broken part in the gear box, or just a stuck valve. You could try changing the fluid and running a little "trans-x" through the box before yanking and replacing.

I'm guessing more than anything else, someone else might tell you what the problem definitely is in the gearbox.