Question about powersteering cooler?
05-25-2003, 11:46 PM
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Question about powersteering cooler? I was wanting to disconnect and remove the powersteering cooler or housing whichever its called to polish it out. The thing that is holding me back from doing so is that I could of swore someone told me if I was to disconnect it that I would have to bleed it. I dont quite understand what that person meant or if Im just remembering something that I never heard. Is this true? What will happen if I was to totally disconnect the cooler? Are there any procedures or a certain way to take it off and put it back on? I see that coolant runs through it, but what do the 2 or 3 smaller hoses on the bottom do and what runs through them? Thanks
05-26-2003, 02:45 PM
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Re: Question about powersteering cooler? With having a polished finish it will hold heat instead of get rid of it. Think of it as wrapping meat in foil while you cook it.
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Re: Question about powersteering cooler? It's a PS-fluid - to - radiator coolant heat
exchanger, not a fluid-air exchanger (except
some incidental convection which doesn't count
for much). Polishing only matters to radiative
heat transfer and I bet the difference between
rough and polished aluminum there, isn't much.
Aluminum wrap in the oven is a convection barrier,
little to do with radiative heat transfer. At 200F
operating temps radiative transfer is no big help
anyway. It's all conductive (fluid-wall-fluid) in
this application.
You could just paint it black. Less work and less
of a "what's that anyway?".
exchanger, not a fluid-air exchanger (except
some incidental convection which doesn't count
for much). Polishing only matters to radiative
heat transfer and I bet the difference between
rough and polished aluminum there, isn't much.
Aluminum wrap in the oven is a convection barrier,
little to do with radiative heat transfer. At 200F
operating temps radiative transfer is no big help
anyway. It's all conductive (fluid-wall-fluid) in
this application.
You could just paint it black. Less work and less
of a "what's that anyway?".
05-26-2003, 04:44 PM
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Re: Question about powersteering cooler? Never thought it would have a problem with heat. But what I was wanting to know is if I totally disconnect it, what would happen? Would I have to bleed it? If so, how in the world do you do that? I may not know what Im talking about because I may just be remembering something that I never heard before. To disconnect it, I would move the 2 clamps on each end to the side, and then remove the hoses coming off from the bottom of it, right? I just dont see how it would have to be bled and if so how its done. Thanks and by the way, from what Stang Killer says, there could be a problem with heat, but from what Jimmyblue has to say, it really may not matter.
05-26-2003, 10:02 PM
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Re: Question about powersteering cooler? You do not have to bleed it. Just plumb it back up, fill the pump, start the car and let it idle for a minute, then rock the wheel back and forth (is better if you jack the front wheels up). Then stop the car, refill the PS pump and repeat.
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05-27-2003, 02:46 AM
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Re: Question about powersteering cooler? Actually 98 1LE that process you desrcibed IS bleeding the PS system. Basically your getting rid of air and getting fluid!
As for polishing, if you would have put this in the detail section you would have got your answers much easier and more thorough.
As for polishing, if you would have put this in the detail section you would have got your answers much easier and more thorough.
05-27-2003, 11:05 AM
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Re: Question about powersteering cooler? Yes, you can remove your cooler with no ill effects. Unless you are autocrossing or harsh driving wheel turning back and forth alot, it is really not necessary. Its one of those things old people get as an option in their Cadillac. I removed mine and replaced it with a Wysco stainless braided style with nice shiny chrome ends. 
But just to polish, I removed mine and polished it about 2 years ago and had no problems what so ever. Just do like some one else said about bleeding. Turn steering wheel full lock 3 or 4 times. You will notice some mild bubbling in your fill tank.
But just to polish, I removed mine and polished it about 2 years ago and had no problems what so ever. Just do like some one else said about bleeding. Turn steering wheel full lock 3 or 4 times. You will notice some mild bubbling in your fill tank.
