Nissan Repair: 1995 Nissan Quest xe, wheel drive cars, front wheel drive cars

Question
Dear Sir:I have '95 quest (original owner) with 90k miles. Recently power steering fluid had a leak and mechanic replaced hose to fix this leak. After this I noticed a weird problem i.e. when car is idling in park and you turn steering wheel right or left: RPM jumps up about to 1250 (normally it idles at 7500rpm) OR whenever you stopped at traffic light and i move steering wheel back & forth and rpm jumps up again to 1250rpm. I never had this kind of problem before, Could you please advise me and help me out what mechanic did wrong (he said that he just replaced leaky hose)? Thanks again..

Answer
George,

It is not a problem as the pressure switch makes the idle go up when you turn the wheel each way.  If you think it is bumping the idle too much you could replace the pressure switch in the hose connection.  But, it is normal for the idle to go up.  It could have been disconnected all this time and when the hose was replaced it corrected a problem you never knew you had.  All Nissan front wheel drive cars have this design.