[s-cars] power steering trouble

[Cody Forbes]

Agreed. I used to work on a few Citroens (old SM's) and every bit of info 
you can find for those cars says that in a pinch you are much better off 
using engine oil over ATF. The hydraulic oil they use is very simmilar to 
our CHF11S, though in my (non-technical) opinion it seems to be alot 
thinner...and alot more expensive (especially since the resoviour holds 2+ 
gallons of the stuff!!!!).

Notice the second to last paragraph on this page:
http://www.maserati-rc.org/techtips/Techtip011.htm

-Cody Forbes
http://www.5000tq.com
'87 5ktq - Fast.
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'86 5k
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Peter Golledge wrote:
> Ummm ATF kills Hydraulic systems.... I'd flush it ASAP.  I see many,
> many Audis at the boneyards in CO which are there only because ATF
> killed the Rack/Pump/Hoses.
>
> John Deere/CAT dealers have Mineral Hyd oil FYI.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of brian hoeft
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 5:31 PM
> To: djdawson2 at aol.com
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] power steering trouble
>
> 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&p
>> age=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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> //brian
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