rayandbarb

John, how do you check the CEL trouble codes? I will check my manual for reasons for light. Fairtax4me, No other lights. I do have steering wheel shimmy when applying brakes at a certain pressure though. That's why I thought brakes. Somebody said possibly front end alignment for that issue. Do not feel anything in the brake pedal.

Okay. Could be brakes because I'm having steering wheel shimmy intermittently when I put the brakes on at just a certain pressure. So because I have VDC do I have to buy Subaru brakes?

I have a 2002 Outback H6 with VDC (not sure what that is). I keep getting a light on the dash intermittently that says VDC Off. There is a button on the console to turn it off and on but I don't think it works. Any ideas on what is causing the light to come on and go off?

Thanks guys. Miles, yes, trans fluid.

John, the pump has a "pigtail" that is on the pump and is connected to a wire in the engine compartment. I personally don't know where it goes but have been informed that it is a pressure sensor. The 2.5 L does't have it. I will pass this along to my husband. Miles, We removed the fluid each time we changed the pump. We pulled the schematic from alldatadiy.com for my car but the reservoir is not the same in that it does not have a dipstick but lines on the reservoir. He filled it up to the line it says and he says the fluid level does not drop. Thank you guys for responding. This is the first forum ever where anybody responded to anything at all.

I bought a 2002 Outback Sedan in October. In a short amount of time the pressure sensor blew out and I had no power steering. I have since acquired a pump from a salvage yard and put it on my car. The car moans loudly when turning from side to side but not with the wheels straight. We had a 90-day warranty on the pump so we returned it and got another one with the same issue. We have tried bleeding the lines but to no avail. We changed the O-rings and some kind of valve in the side of the pump with no success. I convinced my husband to try bleeding it again but no change. This is how we did this. Tell me if you have some other way of doing it. We jacked the car up and put jack stands under it so the car is level. We then put the proper amount of fluid in the reservoir and proceeded to turn the steering wheel lock to lock several times. Lowered the car to test it since when jacked up the noise goes away. The same problem of moaning continued so jacked it back up again and repeated. In all my husband states he turned the wheel the last time approximately 50 times and there are still bubbles in the reservoir. He maintains that the churning of the fluid in the tank will cause the bubbles and that he doesn't think it is coming from the pump or lines. Help me please! I don't want to buy a new $600 pump just to find out it wasn't the pump. Thanks