[s-cars] power steering trouble

[brian hoeft]

im sure theres some metal or synthetic seal that im ignorant of chemical
reaction problems but so far no foaming and the leak is seriously slower
once i added ATF.

i really only used ATF because it was most similar to hydraulik fluid to
what was available through midwest/southwest states and ,, cheap.


On 8/22/07, Mike Fitton <rfitton at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> Isn't ATF bad and stuff?
>
> -Cheers!
> Mike
>
> brian hoeft wrote:
>
> 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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