Air in the hydraulic system - yikes!

[Kunz, Bob]

Thank you all...

Turns out I have both the original pump and a rebuild kit, the drag link
socket and the instructions on how to rebuild a pump. I'm going to swap
in the old weeping (it wasn't really a leak) pump and see if that cures
the problem, then rebuild one or the other.

I knew you guys would confirm a suspicion if I put it out there.

Thanks again!

--bob

'86 5Ks avant
'02 TTQR

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Peter responded with:

Bob,

As others have said...  Odds are very, very high it is the pump.
Rebuild
kit is ~ $25 from what I recall.  Rebuild is not a huge issue, but it
can
take a couple of hours if things are gummed up.  

You have to press off/on the pulley and you need a "drag link socket"
for
the piston caps which can be obtained easily enough.  I can dig up the
HOW-TO if required.

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Bob originally said:

<<snip, snip>>

It appears that air is getting mixed in somewhere in the system. 

<<more snip, snip>>

Could the pump itself be the problem? Perhaps a crack on the vacuum side
of
it? I can't think of anything else