Folks,
I know this has been posted to death, but please bear with me.
I have a power steering leak right where the high pressure line goes into the top of the pump. The fluid is actually coming up between the steel pipe and the threaded fitting that holds the pipe to the pump. I removed the pump and the pressure hose from the car, and other than a crappy little O ring, I can’t see why this thing wouldn’t leak all the time! The pipe itself isn’t tweaked or split, and looks perfectly fine, but the O ring is very small and kinda squashed looking. Is that little O ring what makes the seal?
I did a search, and found several threads that talk about the pressure hose leaking at the pump, but the only fix seems to have been replacing the entire hose (about $100). Since the pipe looks OK, it seems to me that I should be able to replace the O ring and be good to go. Before I bolt it all back together, I wanted to find out if anyone has done this and been successful. To those of you that have replaced the hose to fix this problem, was there something you noticed on the hose itself that prompted you to replace it?
Thanks for your feedback (and putting up with yet another power steering post!).
Barry
I know this has been posted to death, but please bear with me.
I have a power steering leak right where the high pressure line goes into the top of the pump. The fluid is actually coming up between the steel pipe and the threaded fitting that holds the pipe to the pump. I removed the pump and the pressure hose from the car, and other than a crappy little O ring, I can’t see why this thing wouldn’t leak all the time! The pipe itself isn’t tweaked or split, and looks perfectly fine, but the O ring is very small and kinda squashed looking. Is that little O ring what makes the seal?
I did a search, and found several threads that talk about the pressure hose leaking at the pump, but the only fix seems to have been replacing the entire hose (about $100). Since the pipe looks OK, it seems to me that I should be able to replace the O ring and be good to go. Before I bolt it all back together, I wanted to find out if anyone has done this and been successful. To those of you that have replaced the hose to fix this problem, was there something you noticed on the hose itself that prompted you to replace it?
Thanks for your feedback (and putting up with yet another power steering post!).
Barry