Owl Vans Grenadier Steering Box Upgrade

[linksK9rig]

Not true mine would squeal sitting still idling….

Mine makes some noise only when I steer and it’s not loud. I initially took it as a Grenadier thing at first to only find out the majority here are annoyed by it. Not all pumps are made the same it seems.

 

[HereinDaRockies]

Not true mine would squeal sitting still idling….

lol that’s messed up… you mean it never idles down after like 5 seconds of steering inactivity?

 

[MileHigh]

lol that’s messed up… you mean it never idles down after like 5 seconds of steering inactivity?

Sitting still, steering straight ahead, it would be silent, and then the pump would come on sporadically. If the wheel was turned more than an 1/8 it would squeal sitting still. In general use, you could hear me coming from a couple of hundred yards away.

A Jeep JL wrangler has a similar set up and it makes a noise. It isn’t as loud or as frequent.

 

[Borg54 (Owl Outdoor)]

Well, folks, we have our answer on the steering pump noise. But you will have to watch to find out

 

[HereinDaRockies]

Well, folks, we have our answer on the steering pump noise. But you will have to watch to find out

It’s amazing… owl can evidently spec the build of these steering pumps, without explicit requirements on noise thresholds. Even with such ambiguity on noise requirements, the supplier naturally built them in a way that doesn’t generate noise. Makes sense right? It’s like spec-ing the requirements for an order of balls, without the need to be pedantic and specify the mathematical formula of a sphere.

Ineos (and us) has the poor luck with being saddled with a dipshit supplier that took the path that results in 90db+ of shriek in many units .

You almost have to explicitly try hard, to create a steering pumps that generates that much noise and then also ignore the noise while doing qc testing.