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Old Aug 6, 2007 | 04:12 PM
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I have a pretty original 1978 L82, I was away for a while and had not had time to mess with or play with it at all. I got home and decided I needed to go play but I noticed a big puddle of fluid under the car. Upon further investigations, I found I was totally out of power steering fluid. It had been about 4 weeks since I last had the car out. I got under the car and to my suprise, I saw nothing that would have suggested a leak. I added fluid and started it up and turned the wheel and still no leak. I cleaned all up and have let it sit for a couple days and still nothing. Any one have any ideas or suggestions? Thank you, Sean


Is it possible that heat could have caused the leak. For one week, I was gone and the car was in the garage, no one was using the garage and it was quite hot (upper 90's that week). Just a thought that I had.
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Last edited by sstan03; Aug 6, 2007 at 08:56 PM. Reason: just thinking....
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Old Aug 6, 2007 | 04:27 PM
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control valve probably, it will leak inside and the fluid will drip off the zerk fitting and leave nothing hardly behind. Keep an eye on it.
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