1979 Power Steering Leak
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Racer
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: West Hills CA
1979 Power Steering Leak
When inspecting underneath the car I noticed a ton of built up grime on the power steering valve. I cleaned it all off, and I was thinking it must be the lines (cause they hang pretty darn low and I was assuming the previous owner/s probably smacked something) But the lines don't appear to be leaking. I noticed a tiny drip coming from a hole on the bottom of the valve, it looks like it's supposed to have some fitting. All the valves I found online have a zerk grease fitting where that hole is. My question is, would power steering fluid be leaking from that grease fitting? I mean, I'm going to get the correct fitting for that, but would that potentially solve my PS fluid leak issue, or is that missing fitting another separate problem...
Melting Slicks
Joined: Oct 2012
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From: Dunedin NZ.
If PS fluid is leaking from that hole, it is likely that the seals inside the other end of the valve are leaking. Although they fit a grease nipple at that point you need to be very careful putting extra grease in there because you could force it into the other end where the PS fluid circulates.
