Chrisis37
New Member
- Joined
- Mar 20, 2013
- Messages
- 2
- Vehicle Year
- 1999
- Transmission
- Automatic
So the other day I was driving to work at 6 am and it was raining very hard and it was still dark so the visibility was rather bad and I drove through (what I thought was going to be a small puddle at the time) a overflowing creek at 30 mph and immediately after this I lost my power steering, my truck started to overheat and my battery started to die.
I only had about half a mile left to go to work so I went ahead and drove there with no power steering, when I got there my truck was overheating pretty badly and my battery was nearly dead. After it cooled down a bit I opened the hood and immediately noticed that my serpentine belt had fallen off, I'm guessing the creek I drove through had something to do with that as it shook my truck pretty bad when I went through it.. Anyway the belt wasn't broken so I managed to get it back on and it started up fine with the exception of the belt squeaking badly, but as I drove home every time I turned, my steering wheel would shake pretty violently..
Its a well used truck as it has 204k miles on it so I checked the power steering fluid and it looked like a dark brown, do I need to change the power steering fluid and if so how do I go about that? Or is there something else that is wrong? The steering wheel never shook like that before the serpentine belt fell off..
I only had about half a mile left to go to work so I went ahead and drove there with no power steering, when I got there my truck was overheating pretty badly and my battery was nearly dead. After it cooled down a bit I opened the hood and immediately noticed that my serpentine belt had fallen off, I'm guessing the creek I drove through had something to do with that as it shook my truck pretty bad when I went through it.. Anyway the belt wasn't broken so I managed to get it back on and it started up fine with the exception of the belt squeaking badly, but as I drove home every time I turned, my steering wheel would shake pretty violently..
Its a well used truck as it has 204k miles on it so I checked the power steering fluid and it looked like a dark brown, do I need to change the power steering fluid and if so how do I go about that? Or is there something else that is wrong? The steering wheel never shook like that before the serpentine belt fell off..