[s-cars] S6 steering rack; unusual leak

[Peter Golledge]

Steve,

Dealing with a Jorgen rack issue on my son's 89 200.  It decided to leak 
from the allen headed bolts near the hose connections... bolt had backed 
out and was finger tight, got it retorqued and that fixed it for about 
two days... suspect I need to pull the bolt and put a new O-ring on.  
The rack was only in for two weeks so this is quite the PITA.  Having 
said all of that I've installed 3 other Jorgen rebuilds and they are all 
going just fine.  One has exceeded the miles that the OE original 
lasted.  They have lifetime warranty so you should get a new one for 
cost of shipping.

If you can do the seals "in situ" or by just taking off the rack 
mounting bolts and moving it up a bit I'd replace the seals and call it 
good.  Removing the complete unit is such a pain.

Cheers

On 11/27/2013 2:24 PM, Steve Marinello wrote:
> The travails of the S6 avant continue.  The rebuilt Jorgen rack put on
> about 3.5 years ago just blew our the end seals on the passenger
> side...where it is an end bolt with internal o-ring seals.  Have never
> heard of a rack leaking there before.  Not the banjo bolt seal and not the
> internal seals, as the boots are dry.  Thought the bomb was going when the
> brake light came on and the fluid level was way down.  Filled it up and the
> light went off and all was good...until the next morning when the rack
> started moaning as I turned into work and the fluid level was down again.
>   Nothing on the ground before I headed to my mechanic that afternoon, but
> when we put it up, there was fluid all over the right side suspension and
> blown all along the bottom of the car.  Cleaned it up and checked and it's
> the freakin' end bolt.
>
> Certainly out of warranty, but even the tech and production guys at Jorgen
> admit they've never had one fail like that.  Not real comfortable about
> pulling it to replace seals, as the damn think might just leak again due to
> other issues.  This rack, by the way, has about 15k on it, in Houston
> weather, so no real cold weather issues on it, and the kid went to college
> so I've been the only one driving it, except for my mechanic and his young
> trainees occasionally.
>
> Doesn't make sense.  I, unfortunately, lean towards another rack.  Any
> advice or comments?
>
> Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
>
> Steve
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