

| Subject: | Re: leaks leaks and more leaks - |
| From: | Roger Sisler |
| Date: | Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:38:25 -0500 |
A very common place for the PS to leak is at a PS steel line where it routs to the right of the egnine. This is a high corrosion area. If youhave a 83.5-early 85,your steel coolant tubes are right behind the PS lines as far as corroding through, goes. That is the bad news. The good news is that there are several ways to fix the PS lines. The easiest way is to cut the bad area out and splice in a high pressure(fuel line) rubber hose and use hose clamps on each end.The corroded area will look like the surface of the moon. Easy to find ,even without a telescope. You can replace the entire PS line and expect lots of work.Use rubber fuel line and rout it the entire way.You can also put in new metal lines. This is very expensive.They are 10 feet long. When you find some for sale, shipping will be $125 by UPS.I wire wheeled a set and painted them with POR15 gloss black. Very good ,uncorroded conditon and beautiful !! It took awhile to sell them because the buyers did not understand the shipping costs. I think you should go with a splice ,if this is your problem.Another way the PS leaks is at the end of the steering racks life. The seals on either side of the rack,near the rubber boots will leak.Eventually they leak profusely. PS fluid stop leak will not fix it. Best to remove the V-belt and use non power steering.This is a reasonable fix.I have been doing it for years.No problems.
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