76 Bronco Power Steering Pump PROBLEM HELP!

[Rustytruck]

By the fifth one you will be answering everyone else's questions. You got the bug bad. Get a a penicillin shot, tetanus shot, and stock up on first aid supplies. You should get your head examined but if you do they will take away your guns. Good luck with your addiction.

Welcome to the show.

 

[Sourjack89]

Oh I’ve got the bug...I literally can’t pass up a cheap bronco, no matter what I find potential in every one of them! Problem is out of five that I own NONE are turn key enough for me to jump in and drive to the movies right now LOL...I mean I need some miminum criteria here like they gotta at least drive down the road! They are rather simple trucks but making them run again is ANYTHING but simple.

 

[Sourjack89]

UPDATE:

I MUST have gotten a defective pump. Jacked the front end up with a nice heavy duty floor jack and cycled the wheel back and forth 60-70 times (checking the fluid level every few revolutions). Got ALL the air bubbles out and level correct. Returned the bronco to street level, fired it up and NO POWER STEERING! My neighbor said it sounded like a scratchy marbles noise inside the pump too. That pump is shot. Idiots at Pep boys trashed me. I’m calling Tom’s Bronco Parts and buying a Saginaw pump and reservoir and new high and low pressure lines. Don’t know what else I could have done!

 

[Skiddy]

as someone else mentioned there could of been (might still be) trash in the system from the old pump. on the next one try and clean and blow out the whole system, new lines will help.

 

[sprdv1]

Oh I’ve got the bug...I literally can’t pass up a cheap bronco, no matter what I find potential in every one of them! Problem is out of five that I own NONE are turn key enough for me to jump in and drive to the movies right now LOL...I mean I need some miminum criteria here like they gotta at least drive down the road! They are rather simple trucks but making them run again is ANYTHING but simple.

LOL, The Addiction... Welcome

 

[Eoth]

Something you might want to try is to cycle the steering back and forth with the engine off (raised off the ground of course). Air pockets that hit the pump while running can turn into smaller air bubbles and make your steering fluid "bubbly/foamy". It will appear to be working until you lower it down. I have never been able to bleed it with the engine running.