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I think it will be good for you to take a break from this - should help to clear your mind. In the mean time I will attempt to offer an explanation of how the power steering / brake hydroboost system
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It doesn't matter which return fitting on the pump the power steering or power brake return hose goes to; they both empty into the reservoir there for are interchangeable. As @Tractorma
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There should be power steering and brakes immediately all though it may be jerky and noise from the system due to the entrained air and slowly go away in a day or two. There is flow so the pump is de
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Last week my vacuum pump went out. I swapped it by separating the ps pump and vac pump in the truck and just pulling the vac pump out (probably a mistake in hindsight). Once I got things back together I had vacuum but now no power brakes (hard pedal) or steering. I had a spare (unused reman) ps pump so I swapped that and went through the procedure for purging air from the system but I still have zero power brakes or steering. I also flushed the old fluid by routing the return lines into a bucket and noted lots of flow so I know the pump is pumping. If I do the purge procedure slowly and at idle only nothing special happens but some combination of raising the engine rpms and moving the wheel rapidly causes the pump to belch fluid. Does this indicate that I still have air in the system or some other problem? I also noted, while experimenting, that there is very little return fluid from the hydroboost line, mostly just from the steering rack. I don't know if this is normal though. BTW, I suspect that my old ps pump was probably fine and that I may just not have had it fully seated in the vacuum pump when I re-assembled it. Is there something that could be wrong with the re-man pump that could be causing the problem even though there seems to be plenty of flow?
I've read quite a few posts about similar problems but mostly people just seem to keep swapping parts until it starts working, flush the fluid, or keep purging air. Is there a better way of properly diagnosing exactly what is wrong? Any help would be much appreciated, I'm about out of good ideas and really need to get this thing back on the road and myself back to paying work.