RE: Hydraulic pump

["Dr. Ian McArthur" <imac@tcel.com>]

There are oil seals (o-rings) under the big bolts with the squares on them.  They are cheap (like 11 cents each) and very esy to change.  Just unscrew the big bolts (I loosened them with a big screwdrived and mallet) and change the o-rings.  I took the old ones to a commercial seal shop and got new ones.

See my other message re: leaking drilling and making a gasket.  It worked well for me.

Ian McArthur

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From: 	Michael Spiers[SMTP:mikes@specnet.com]
Sent: 	Friday, September 29, 1995 12:40 PM
To: 	Bruce Kaye
Cc: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
Subject: 	Re: Hydraulic pump

> Anybody
> have any experince with rebuilts.  Part cost $350Can.

Yes.  When I replaced the pump and rack & pinion on the '84 last year, I used
rebuilt stuff.  The rack was fine, but I wen through three pumps and seven
quarts of pentosin in five days getting a pump that would work.  the pumps
looked fine, and worked at first, but after a while (ten miles on the first
one, 125 on the second) they started SPURTING pentosin out of one of the bolts
on top.  Not the bolts holding the hoses on, the bolts that have the + cast
into them, so I guess they're really big screws.  Whatever, I had a stream that
shot ten feet in font of the car when I popped the hood.

-- 
-Mike
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87 5000CS TQ
84 5000S (2,000 miles away and a mile high)
90 80 (sibling's mode of transportation I get lynched into working on)