I once had a '95 Probe GT (Yeah, I know) and the rack started to malfunction.
It would seem to lock up just as I'd come to the exit ramp, or just as I'm entering the decreasing radius part of an exit ramp. Hair raising at highway speed. It would work fine at street speeds, and on the freeway with small steering inputs, but making high speed maneuvers was close to impossible at intermittent times. I found I could apply enough effort to steer the car, (pucker factor off the charts) but it took a lot of effort.
As I remember, it would happen just after a downshift, so the revs were up.
It turned out to be debris in the system clogging some valve that would not allow PSF to flow in either direction at the correct volume. One trip to work, and one trip home with that happening was more than enough for me. My mechanic at the time suspected what was wrong based on a TSB about that model of rack & pinion system. He flushed it out and I never had another issue with it.
It would seem to lock up just as I'd come to the exit ramp, or just as I'm entering the decreasing radius part of an exit ramp. Hair raising at highway speed. It would work fine at street speeds, and on the freeway with small steering inputs, but making high speed maneuvers was close to impossible at intermittent times. I found I could apply enough effort to steer the car, (pucker factor off the charts) but it took a lot of effort.
As I remember, it would happen just after a downshift, so the revs were up.
It turned out to be debris in the system clogging some valve that would not allow PSF to flow in either direction at the correct volume. One trip to work, and one trip home with that happening was more than enough for me. My mechanic at the time suspected what was wrong based on a TSB about that model of rack & pinion system. He flushed it out and I never had another issue with it.
