Power steering noise

[Eric.S.]

Hello everyone I was finally able to pick up my grenadier yesterday Unfortunately, I noticed at home that my power steering makes a strange noise. I think it's not a normal noise, or? The filling level in the container was at maximum with the engine warm but switched off. The German instructions do not say exactly in which condition the oil should be checked. Does anyone have an idea? I tried to post a video but I always see the file is too big (7mb)
Thank you

 

[MileHigh]

But I think I know why they are ‘silent’ on fixing it. IF the units really are $3k, that would crush them. My guess is that they’ll make a change and never look back. I’m wiling to throw a$500 at the issue, but not $3k- if they eventually ever fix it.

It will be really interesting in 10 years to hear the story about what happened with the steering pump.

 

[Roach]

But I think I know why they are ‘silent’ on fixing it. IF the units really are $3k, that would crush them. My guess is that they’ll make a change and never look back. I’m wiling to throw a$500 at the issue, but not $3k- if they eventually ever fix it.

It will be really interesting in 10 years to hear the story about what happened with the steering pump.

100%, this will be a board thread: avoid buying IG’s with serial #’s or year or part…

 

[MileHigh]

100%, this will be a board thread: avoid buying IG’s with serial #’s or year or part…

I am looking for when these squealing steering pump Ineos grenadiers are a sign that you’re an OG. You were in at the beginning.

“Oh, wow! That one is REALLY loud, it must be a ‘24!”

 

[emax]

... The pump is vastly more complex than an old school e fine driven pump. That is why the pumps are so expensive. This does not fit the original spirit of the truck. But it was inevitably required to comply to regs where the engine shut off system was required. That way the pump could operate when the engine was off.

It's very stupid. I would be very happy to swap to an engine driven pump if someone developed one.

They (INEOS) have shifted the TCO onto the owners; that's their strategy.

The reason for this is that developing a motor-driven pump requires real engineers. Although such a pump is significantly more reliable ...

• ... the pump must be designed so that it can be installed and replaced even with the engine installed in the car (and not just on the workbench).
• It requires a mechanical connection with all the associated consequences, such as gears, a lubricated drive axle with bearings, and also sealing to the outside against oil leaks (like all components mounted on an engine), etc.
• there must be nothing that mechanically obstructs the pump's installation and the routing of the hoses.
• with an electric pump, you connect the hoses and a cable, and that's it, no matter where it's installed in the end: you can mount it anywhere there's enough space.

This saves money in development and, above all, requires less engineering. Any idiot can tack something like this somewhere in the engine bay and connect the electrical cables and hoses; no one has to think about the mechanical drive & connection, lubrication, installation, maintenance space etc ...