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Originally Posted by gt86gh
Hi. Did you sort this problem. I too had the same problem. I found out what it was .. it's a flexible rubber coupler that has disintegrated inside the electric power steering motor.
Don't know how to attach a picture of it here.
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Is this the rubber you are referring to?
I found a video talking about this problem on the Corolla. Unfortunately it's in Russian and doesn't translate well. From what I understand there is a rubber ring around this bearing and you can shim it up with plastic to solve the knocking sound. I am going to try and work on mine this weekend and will report back if I find a fix.
There seems to be a lot of talk about this problem on various Toyotas with EPS but it's all in Russian and it's hard to understand the bad Google Translations. I guess they have a lot of bad roads over there which destroys the EPS rapidly.
There is a hot Russian girl at my office that I am going to ask to help translate for me.
Edit: I'm feeling good about this now. I found several more Russian articles on fixing this. Most of them involve popping that cap off the end of the motor, stripping the old rubber out and then replacing with new ruber. The fix will only require a flat head to pry the cap off, scissors to cut some ruber and a hammer to put the cap back on.