Steering ( update

[Mike Miller]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kneale Brownson" <knotnook at traverse.com>
To: "Mike Miller" <mikemilr at blackfoot.net>; "200 20v List"
<200q20v at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 5:13 AM
Subject: Re: Steering ( update


> At 08:23 PM 09/25/2002 -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
>
> >Well, no responses yet, but here's an update. I appear to be foaming the
> >pentosin and it is coming out the top of the fluid reservoir.. Again -
any
> >ideas based on new info would be gretly appreciated.
>
> Did you bleed the system after installing the new hose?  Raise the front
> wheels off the ground and turn the steering wheel from stop to stop
rapidly
> several times with the engine running.
>
> Foaming Pentosin usually is a sign of the system sucking air.  Did you use
> new O rings and torque the banjo bolts to spec?   If so, you could have a
> failing seal in the pump.

The hose I replaced was a brake line hose - not a steering related hose. So
you're saying that I must be sucking air in from a leaking pump seal it
sounds like.

thanks,
mike