Last year my '79 started making a creaking noise when I turned the steering wheel. It sounded similar to an old screen door with the hydraulic closing cylinders. As it creaks, I can feel it in the steering wheel. I replaced my slave cylinder with another and the noise was lessened, but still there. Sometimes it disappears, but the next time I take the car out, it is back. I worked the air out of the system as laid out in a website mentioned in the C3VR. It helped for awhile and then returned. Has anyone else out there had the same problem? Is my pump foaming and causing the problem? I am using Lucas power steering fluid. I am rather at a loss, short of starting to replace stuff until the noise goes away. Sorry about being so 'wordy' but it is really starting to bug me.  Help!

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sounds like the bearing at the end of the steering shaft. It is on the bottom at the coupling that hooks to the rag joint. It gets alot of water and crud from many years of exposure to elemants. Mine was dry as a desert. Requires removal of shaft and disassembly. small cost, but big time consuming ordeal. Not difficult. Mine was done out of the car. I took the entire steering column out.

I guess I never thought about looking around more for the source of the noise. Thanks. I'll look into it.

I'm inclined to agree with Mark on the lower bearing, if it sounds like the noise is coming from the outside(not inside the cabin). Another possibility is the ball joints...if they get really dry, they'll skweek like that too.