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Kenneth, you might try this...
Posted by Micah in NC [Email] (more from Micah in NC) on Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:40:21
In Reply to: steering gear seals shot, kenneth licht, Thu, 12 Dec 2002 00:02:07
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Kenneth,
The steering gear's spool valve seal (where steering column shaft enters steering rack) is leaking on my '84 900S. I got slowed it down from a steady drip on the ground to only a TINY amount of fluid usage--e.g. it drops from Full to Add over several hundred miles--and this has worked for several months now.
How? Well, I used Valvoline SynPower power steering fluid (it has stop leak additives). I am amazed. I thought I would need a new rack pronto. In fact, the leak started all of a sudden and I feared that I would ruin my p/s pump, so I removed the p/s belt until getting the SynPower fluid.
It's available at AutoZone parts stores, probably Advance Auto and Wal-Mart, too, approx. $3.50 per quart.
Here's how well it helped me: The leak started last winter, and now I've been using the SynPower one year and haven't even used up a whole quart! That's dramatic leak reduction!
(But I still figure on getting a new steering rack in the future.)
Hope this helps! (And, no, I don't own stock in Valvoline!)
Micah in NC
'84 900S, 226K mi.
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