Random loss pf power steering

[spatters]

This happened to me the other day whilst driving to Santa Fe. It was cold. Accelerated to pass someone and abruptly lost power steering. Went to pull over, and when I got down to maybe 15 MHP power steering returned. Luckily this all happened on a straight road, or there could easily have been a high speed accident.

There are so many reports just like this, what does it take for Jeep to acknowledge that it's a problem before someone is killed?

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[chr15m]

How did you check the ground - remove, clean, and reattach?

Yes, went out this morning and checked the fuse box, N6 was secure, all fuses properly seated. I fully removed the ground wire in the image you posted. The post has paint on the end but nothing where the nut was seated. The ground lead was contacting bare metal on the post and the bottom side of the nut had no paint on it.

I've seen a few other posts where it was mentioned that there may be a ground attached on a radiator post. I haven't checked there yet, since as I started to remove the air box it began to rain.

I've taken the truck out a couple times now and floored it but no repeat of the other day.

The wiring is also located in the airbox area, I suppose there could be contact occurring during hard acceleration that could move some of the ground wires. Still, the ones I checked were all secure on my truck.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Yes, went out this morning and checked the fuse box, N6 was secure, all fuses properly seated. I fully removed the ground wire in the image you posted. The post has paint on the end but nothing where the nut was seated. The ground lead was contacting bare metal on the post and the bottom side of the nut had no paint on it.

I've seen a few other posts where it was mentioned that there may be a ground attached on a radiator post. I haven't checked there yet, since as I started to remove the air box it began to rain.

I've taken the truck out a couple times now and floored it but no repeat of the other day.

The wiring is also located in the airbox area, I suppose there could be contact occurring during hard acceleration that could move some of the ground wires. Still, the ones I checked were all secure on my truck.

Not much else to say other than - you seem to be at least following logical paths and looking in the right direction at least to start with.
So many similar cases are under acceleration, stressful crawling or off-roading, braking, etc. - and no one need to explain what that can do to connections and cables - you already know.

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