If you are doing the "crawl under the van" and don't spend to much time with
the jacks,  it could be done in 3-4 hours.  No special tools, only a 17 and
19mm wrench.   The procedure for filling the power steering tank worked
well, I used the following site and the pictures were very useful:

http://wiki.vanagabond.com/bin/view/Vanagon/PowerSteeringHowTo

http://gallery.openfbo.com/powersteering

Have fun,
Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf Of
Dusty Edwards
Sent: 23-Apr-05 13:26
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Power Steering hose with new hydraulic hose

 i've purchased the pressure and return hoses from Frank Condelli.  how long
would you say it took you to complete the project???  do you have any
tips?......any special (non-amateur) tools used in the process???

thanks for your help!
dusty.
On Saturday, April 23, 2005, at 10:13AM, Martine Boudreault
<martine.boud@VIDEOTRON.CA> wrote:

>I just removed the old metal power steering lines on my 89 Westy with a new
>hydraulic hose for the high pressure side and a fuel line for the return
>line.   I used 12' for both.  The extra 6" from members suggestion last
week
>was perfect and alloyed me to do a nice "loop" after the front steering
body
>valve.
>
>I got the hoses from a local Hydraulic Hose seller. ($85 CAN) It was a
>little difficult to find somebody with Metric connectors but heavy
machinery
>dealers have them.   The hydraulic hose is rated 5000 lbs. (Much higher
than
>our system after checking with my local Volk dealer)  Very easy repair.
>Thanks again for your help last week.
>Joel
>
>