<SIGH> It's been an all VW weekend for me, and not a good one. Yesterday was spent trying to figure why when it rains my daughter's New Beetle floods on the drivers side floor, ruining an airbag sensor to the tune of $503.00. It has no sunroof (every one keeps telling me to clean the sunroof drains!). Today was time for some PM on the Vanagon, mainly flushing and refilling the power steering fluid and changing the filter. The fluid reservoir was quite gunked up, so I decided to remove it for cleaning, and well, as your might have guessed, the lower hose fitting snapped off. Sooooooooo, a new reservoir has been ordered, but in the meantime I have shoved bolts into the two hose ends and clamped them. I don't really need to drive it this week, but the question is, can I drive it with the fluid reservoir disconnected without harming anything? TIA, Jeff

Jeff Stewart