Volvo V70R hard steering

jakebvrs · Post by **jakebvrs** » 04 Jun 2022, 06:58

Well I came across a dime of a car on facebook market place but she came with some flaws. Traveled on down to maryland after a 6 hour car ride to pick this V70R up. It has some flaws but nothing major. Something I cannot stand is the hard steering, I want to say it’s the clock spring but all the control work and the horn works. But something I hear is a clicking noise when i turn the wheel and then when it gets into a certain position it’s super easy to spin around. It has the chasis light up and im not sure if that would be a problem. Can someone please point out the obvious to me, there’s power steering, car isn’t leaking and isn’t rough just god awful steering which is giving me a forearm workout.

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Post by **br0dy519** » 04 Jun 2022, 07:15

I had hard notchy steering. It ended up being the lower steering U-joint and the steering rack were both bad. Spray some PB blaster on the lower u joint and see if that frees it temporarily. Replace immediately if that’s your problem because a bad one can cause the pinion seal to fail and that’s a new rack.

jakebvrs · Post by **jakebvrs** » 04 Jun 2022, 13:08

The car only has 149k on it plus the car hasn’t been driven in like 4 months so it’s just been sitting. I’ll try looking under and seeing what’s going on with the car.

Post by **jonesg** » 04 Jun 2022, 15:19

jakebvrs wrote: 04 Jun 2022, 13:08 The car only has 149k on it plus the car hasn’t been driven in like 4 months so it’s just been sitting. I’ll try looking under and seeing what’s going on with the car.

raise it off the ground, try disconnecting one tie rod at a time to remove load from ea side.

cmbfoto · Post by **cmbfoto** » 12 Jun 2022, 14:58

Replaced the steering U-Joint package a few years ago on a 01 V70 what a nightmare.