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Power steering system fundamentals?
Posted by Jan Geert [Email] (more from Jan Geert) on Sat, 12 May 2007 02:09:27
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Hi all,
last year during summer I lost almost all PS fluid in one blow. This happened 3 times during one week. admittedly this was under quite extreme circumstances (south of France, 40c, direct sunlight, going up the hairpins with 4 persons in the car) but I've done that before without any difficulty.
Even if the mess under the hood was quite extensive, it still was clear that the system dumped all the fluid from somewhere around the pump. reservoir was clean, belt area as well.
Called the dealer, they were not aware that this system should have a dump valve somewhere.
low pressure hose is ok and tight and being low pressure not my primary suspect. No leaks whatsoever under normal circumstances, also no other sighs of misbehaving.
Drove it since then with no problem but with summer approaching I would like to get to the bottom of it to avoid this happening again
So: any suggestions as to what happened? and does this system (Saginaw?) have a dump valve somewhere that can throw all the fluid within a second?
thanks for any suggestions
Jan Geert
1995 9k griffin 252k km
2004 9-3ss 2.0t sentronic
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