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Originally Posted by nissanh
I think you have an issue with the steering rack. May be it is clogged and little oil is passing through it and as a result your oil gets highly pressurized leading to the high temperature.
How much dirt you removed from the screen on the 1st P/S pump? I cleaned my pump screen (according to the thread posted in the t4r site) and found little to no dirt, this is after 200K miles.
I'd say apply some high pressure air into the oil exit line directly on the P/S rack (not to the pump).
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The first p/s pump screen was very dirty. I poured a ton of gunk out of it.
I've thought about rack issues too but I don't know what it could be. The system seems to have very good flow. For the first flushes I did, I did the method with turning the engine on. I would turn it on and then turn it off right away as the reservoir would get drained pretty much instantly.
There aren't any leaks anywhere in the system either (no aeration or foaming in the reservoir when its running) but Im wondering if its possible for the rack to be blown internally somehow. I don't know what it looks like inside so I don't know if that makes sense or not.