power steering cooler leak
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Melting Slicks
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power steering cooler leak
I was under my car yesterday and noticed a leak hunting it down only thing thats wet is the upper drivers side power steering cooler line, it looks like the hard line go's into the cool but dont look like there is a way to tighten it?
I didnt really get a good look at it was in a rush but it looks like the line from the reservoir ? is it a one peace design or can it be tightened?
I didnt really get a good look at it was in a rush but it looks like the line from the reservoir ? is it a one peace design or can it be tightened?
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that hose is held on by some dumb clamps that you pretty much have to break to remove but you can replace them with regular worm clamps if the leak is coming from the connection at the cooler or if it's the hose you can replace that with some power steering hose from autozone or oreilly, no big deal... if you end up needing a cooler I have one that I took off my car and would sell it
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Melting Slicks
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From: chicago area IL.
that hose is held on by some dumb clamps that you pretty much have to break to remove but you can replace them with regular worm clamps if the leak is coming from the connection at the cooler or if it's the hose you can replace that with some power steering hose from autozone or oreilly, no big deal... if you end up needing a cooler I have one that I took off my car and would sell it
can you shoot me some pics and a price?
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this is what mine looks like, I removed it because it was in the way of my blower discharge pipe... maybe yours is leaking at the backside where the hard line is going into the cooler?... if that's the case I don't think it can be tightened, you might be able to have a welder attempt to fix it but not sure if that is feasible
