My sister's 1989 colony park developed a power steering leak. One day it was quite bad: the pump emptied out in 5 miles!
Well, for whatever reason, it's gone another 200 miles without dropping an eighth of an inch. So now my sister is thinking she doesn't need to do anything it's fixed itself
I doubt that very much... but I am curious, why might this happen? A very rapid leak, go away?
It was hard to tell; there was fluid everywhere and hanging in drops off the bottom of the steering box. I'm hoping it's not the box: it's the lowest point anyway, there at that big nut that bolts to the centerlink, so wherever it leaks it'll end up there anyway. But we cleaned it up as best we could -not that well- and while we couldn't get it to leak so rapidly while we were watching, it seems the hose going into the plastic reservoir started seeping at that intersection.
Just to be safe I'm thinking just to spring for the $50 on a new pump+reservoir, in addition to new hoses.
Well, for whatever reason, it's gone another 200 miles without dropping an eighth of an inch. So now my sister is thinking she doesn't need to do anything it's fixed itself
I doubt that very much... but I am curious, why might this happen? A very rapid leak, go away?
It was hard to tell; there was fluid everywhere and hanging in drops off the bottom of the steering box. I'm hoping it's not the box: it's the lowest point anyway, there at that big nut that bolts to the centerlink, so wherever it leaks it'll end up there anyway. But we cleaned it up as best we could -not that well- and while we couldn't get it to leak so rapidly while we were watching, it seems the hose going into the plastic reservoir started seeping at that intersection.
Just to be safe I'm thinking just to spring for the $50 on a new pump+reservoir, in addition to new hoses.
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