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Re: General power steering question.where to check
Posted by JohnK (more from JohnK) on Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:42:18
In Reply to: General power steering question., Tino, Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:08:55
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As johnB said, disconnect the belt for temporary operation. A major high volume leak should be relatively easy to pin down. Check for signs of major flow on wheel well wall below the plastic resevoir. If so, you're lucky and the leak is probably a bad hose connection or broken resevoir nipple. Check for fluid in the bellows on the steering tie rods, leak hear means a new rack. Next look for leaks at the pump from the high pressure side of that goes to the metal line that loops over the motor mount and also the large supply hose to the pump from the resevoir. This feed hose gets rock hard from heat and can leak at the clamp. Check the hoses to the rack and the rack fittings. Check for leakage at the spindle seal where the steering column hooks up to the rack. This seal is a frequent leaker, but normally a slow leaker, time for a new rack. Check that the pump is solidly mounted and all 3 bolts fastening the pump to the mount are tight. These can be accessed through the holes in the pulley with a long 10mm socket. If the pump is flopping around, you might have damaged a bearing and have a leak there, but this is not the most common problem.
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