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Power steering pump failure after timing belt change?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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Any time you mess with a component that's getting tired, you will make it fail. The pump was probably getting tired and when you messed with it, it gave out. You didn't even need to do anything wrong, it just works out that way sometimes. Weak components fail when they're stressed.

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