[s-cars] power steering trouble

[brian hoeft]

it must be the season for hydraulic component issues.

youre the third or fourth lister ive seen mentioning troubles in a couple
weeks.

i myself just got back from a cross country trip and sprung a hydraulik leak
and not only couldnt find pentosin in Missouri and Kansas but was leaking
too much to pay $15 a quart.

sooo, i bought a $9 gallon of ATF that proved just fine and has lasted a few
thousand miles with a quart or so left.

but,, shame on me for dripping a gallon of ATF across middle America..


On 8/22/07, djdawson2 at aol.com <djdawson2 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> 1) Impact driver works best.?
> http://www.matcotools.com/Catalog/toolcatalog.jsp?cattype=T&cat=2208&page=3&#28982
>
> 2) Blau sells the plug and o-ring kit
>
> 3) Don't run it low on fluid
>
> 4) 3 and 4 are closely related.? If you ignore #3 now, you'll be asking
> yourself another question similar to #4 very soon.
>
> Dave
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Fitton <rfitton at vt.edu>
> To: s-car <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 3:40 pm
> Subject: [s-cars] power steering trouble
>
>
>
>
> ...otherwise known as: Help me not pay $360 for a seven-cent o-ring.
>
> So my power steering system has been slowing leaking fluid for several
> months now.  It wasn't fast enough to worry about it until last
> weekend.  I was kind of afraid it was the rack, so I kind of did the
> head in the sand bit for a while.  Finally it started coming out fast
> enough to take a look.  Rack's fine.  It's coming out of that goofy plug
> on top of the pump.  You know, the one that looks like a giant
> phillips-head.  So I used my biggest flat-head and got it off relatively
> easily (the first time).  Found an o-ring underneath that has clearly
> failed.  But I didn't have a new o-ring for it and I'm fresh out of
> CHF-11S, so I stick it back on.  Then I remembered that there's a
> 24-hour Advance not far from here, so I decided to take the o-ring with
> me over there to get a new one.
>
> But now I can't get the plug out.  I didn't think I put it in that
> tight, but it isn't budging.  After about an hour of messing with it,
> the plug itself isn't looking too healthy.  I've used that screwdriver
> and a couple of other things.  Even ground down a chisel to a flat tip,
> but everything just skips out of the head.  I needed the car the next
> day, so I put some RTV around the edge hoping it would hold fluid.  The
> RTV held at first, but now it's leaking again and not slowly.  So I'm in
> desperate need of a new o-ring and preferably a new plug to stick in
> there.
>
> So my first question: anyone have any clever ideas how to get that
> little guy out?
>
> Second question: can I get just a new plug from somewhere?  There's a
> check valve under the plug that sits against it just so, so I can't just
> stick a random bolt in it.  ETKA doesn't appear to list a separate p/n
> for it, so officially the only way to get a new plug is with a new pump.
>
> Third question: if I run out of p/s fluid for a few days before new
> fluid arrives in the mail, will it damage anything?  The pump isn't such
> a big deal, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let a bad o-ring on the
> front of the engine destroy the rack on the firewall.
>
> Fourth question: why didn't I just look at it three months ago, like an
> intelligent and well-adjusted guy would have done?
>
> -Cheers!
> Mike
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