Power Steering Hose Replacement
This is an Autozone replacement high pressure steering hose. The fitting on the pump will usually leak after it's been on/off a few times and it's not a huge PITA to replace but if you have your engine out REPLACE it no matter what cause one day it will start leaking. You might also want to remove your ABS and get a 30" section of 10mm metric thread/standard flare brake line to run from the master cylinder down to the proportioning valve on the firewall while you are at it, that will cost about 4.00 more, you can bend the line to fit around the obstacles and 30" does the job great but that's another page for another day... Ok, there are some clamps on the firewall to remove, the throttle cable needs to be unbolted from the firewall, the turbo heat shields have to come off. There is at least one bolt holding the hose in place on the right side on the lower frame rail. Use some GOOD flare nut wrenches to loosen the fittings or some flare-crows feet are better and you know you can never have too many tools in your garage :) The new hose won't have all the pieces on it like the factory hose so you have to reuse the old clamp that I just mentioned that holds it from moving around and the outer protector sleeve. There is one hard rubber cushion in a bend above the gearbox that you can't reuse, it's molded on the stock hose before any fittings were on there and probably before it was bent. All the bends on the new hose are in the correct places for an otherwise easy install.
Here's the part number to ask for. it comes in a tall box and in our area this sells for 35.99
Below are the new and old hoses, they are bent the same, in the lower left picture that hard rubber on that right angle bend you can't remove and put on the new hose, the the right side picture you can see the clamp and sleeve on the old hose that you need to reuse
this is the new hose below right after you removed the clamp and sleeve from the original hose and put them on the new one, the new hose came with a plug in a bag, I used that to put over the end so when I slid that sleeve onto the new hose it didn't get debris into the new line
it will look like this in the below picture after the sleeve and clamp have been transplanted and then you are ready to install it. The new fittings aren't supposed to be really tight, they will tighten down like a new spark plug so think like that when you are tightening the new fittings down don't tighten them down really tight and think that is better, you are crushing the tube beyond what it was intended to be and I've seen old lines crack and even blow off after they have been reused several times and over-tightened. Messy business when one pops out I'll tell ya, ya I know Kurt I only heard about it but I can imagine it was a mess.
it's easy to overfill your fluid and you will when you refill the reservoir and the pump will foam up and puke out, that's what will happen, just don't fill it back up again, turn your wheels back and forth a few times then shut off the car and let it sit for about an hour and most of that foam will go away and you won't have such a big mess to clean up and do it a little at a time
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2 of the 1st part #, one each of the other 3
