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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 09:14 AM
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hello all, i have a huge power steering leak, like a hose broke, but its coming from the front of the car near the driver side radiator? does anyone know of any diagrams showing the hose locations, plz and thank you
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 11:13 AM
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This is the return/ PS cooler line. The pressure side only travels at the rear of the engine.

The portion near the bottom of the screen installs along the rear of the engine , the right side portion travels along the passenger side up to the front and the top portion runs across the front of the cradle.
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 11:34 AM
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While we're at it, what's that metal wire brush-looking piece under the vehicle near the center splash guard. Mine seems to hang and the "fins" got a little damaged when I ran over something in the road. I have tried to unbend what I could but there are areas on the back and side that were completely flattened.

Is it serviceable or would I have to replace whatever else it's connected to?

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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 12:17 PM
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The return line/ cooler line in my above pic is PN 1917771 it is the standard cooler line, now GXP25 has shown the Police package cooler line PN 19177770 which actually has a cooler for extreme conditions. Both come as complete assemblies.
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 12:43 PM
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awesome , got it guys, got the part ordered. thanks for the help. and apparetnly mine has the police package because i have that fin cooler lol. cool little amount of info i didnt know
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 05:05 PM
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Why bother with that stock garbage cooler. I don't know how you'd call that a police package deal when all gxps have that stupid "Cooler". I cut the lines and usedan swagelock fittings to a little tube fin cooler
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 07:40 PM
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wasn't there a power steering recall ? Pretty sure they sent me one. Not sure if it covered the GXP though
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Old Jan 20, 2015 | 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by impala06ss
wasn't there a power steering recall ? Pretty sure they sent me one. Not sure if it covered the GXP though
Yea there was , i had the repair done on my MC. While they removed my subframe they cracked it and i got a whole new one.
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Originally Posted by GXP25
While we're at it, what's that metal wire brush-looking piece under the vehicle near the center splash guard. Mine seems to hang and the "fins" got a little damaged when I ran over something in the road. I have tried to unbend what I could but there are areas on the back and side that were completely flattened.

Is it serviceable or would I have to replace whatever else it's connected to?
The purpose of the fins is to increase Surface area. Just because they are a little bent does not mean the surface area has changed. It would be different if they where all mashed flat but that looks fine to me.
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