[s-cars] A Different Brake Light Question

[Jared Robinson]

sounds like low fluid to me.
my GTI would grind if the power steering fluid was low. Mine was weeping
from the reservoir hose... resecured the hose, topped off with that
ridiculously priced fluid and it never leaned again.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Douglas Fifield
<douglas.fifield at gmail.com>wrote:

> The only thing I feel with the steering is a very slight "grinding"
> sensation when making very small adjustments to the steering while
> traveling in a straight line.  Don't know if that means anything or
> not.
>
> Yesterday, while under the car doing an oil change, I noticed that the
> hose coming down from the hydraulic pump to the bomb appeared to be
> wet under the foam insulation.  It appears that it is weeping
> somewhere.  Is this the hose that has a screen in the banjo bolt where
> it attaches to the bomb?
>
> D.
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:40 AM, <tony.curran at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > Douglas,
> >
> > I had the same symptoms when steering rack started to leak. Do you notice
> > any difference in feel of the steering?
> >
> > Tony
> > 96 S6
> >
> >> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:39:38 -0500
> >> From: douglas.fifield at gmail.com
> >> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> >> Subject: [s-cars] A Different Brake Light Question
> >>
> >> Gents,
> >>
> >> I also am having brake light problems. Patient is a 95.5 S6 Avant
> >> with about 140K miles on the clock.
> >>
> >> Symptom is a brake light that stays on too long when cold starting and
> >> sometimes does not go off at all when engine is fully warmed in hot
> >> weather.
> >>
> >> Pentosin reservoir is full (even a little over) when engine is
> >> running. Braking feels normal - no pulsing of the pedal. With engine
> >> off, I got about thirty pumps of the pedal before it went hard.
> >>
> >> I replaced the brake servo two years ago with a new unit.
> >>
> >> I was leaning toward a bad bomb before doing the pump-down test.
> >> What's left? The pump?
> >>
> >> Looking for wisdom in Minnesota.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Douglas in MN
> >> 95.5 Audi S//6 Avant
> >> 73 BMW R60/5 mit Toaster Tank
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> 73 BMW R60/5 mit Toaster Tank
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Jared Robinson