Just had the old girl mot'd, and she failed on a torn nearside power steering gaiter, has anyone changed one? if so how easy/hard are they to do. The haynes manual suggests leaving the nearside gaiter to a peugeot garage. Thanks in advance.
Duggie
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Duggie,
The trouble with the near side one is that is encompasses the fixing stud for the PAS ram. The gaiter would need to go over this stud to get it on. The Pug manual probably suggests removing the rack, then dismantling it, fitting the gaiter FIRST, the rebuilding the rack. More than the car is worth for a 405 at a guess! It might be possible to buy a stretchy gaiter and force it over the stud, or use an over-size gaiter and clamp it down well afterwards. Otherwise you might be able to get a S/H rack from a breakers and fit that. Try a local Pug independant garage - they may have ideas about how it can be done without dismantling the rack.
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RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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Your right in what you say Richard, lve been into the local pug dealer they tell me it is possible to stretch the gaiter over the ram stud but is a nightmare of a job, advised to leave gaiter in a bucket of hot water to soften it up, cant say lm looking forward to this job - working under the car bits of crap dropping in your eyes!!lol not.
Duggie
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Carried out the changing of the nearside power steering gaiter today, the nearside is a real pain to do because of a 2" stud bolt that holds the power steering ram to the steering rack. The normal method to do this job is to remove and dismantle the rack fit the gaiter and reassemble, l managed to avoid this, so if anyone is interested this is how the job went.
Firstly remove the trackrod, then undo the ram nut and remove the ram, once these are out of the way remove the old gaiter, the new gaiter was bought from local partco store, a universal gaiter which is more stretchy than the genuine part. The new gaiter was left in boiled water for a few minutes just to make it even more flexible, slide the gaiter onto the rack upto the stud bolt, now this is where patience is needed, stretch the first part of the gaiter over the stud l found putting a spoon inside the gaiter and onto the stud head stopped the stud piercing through, once the gaiter has pasted the stud it was just a case of securing the ends with cable ties (supplied in the kit) and reassembling ram and trackrod. The whole job took me 2 hours, alot quicker than taking out the power steering rack.
Hope this helps someone doing a similar job.
Duggie
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