Power steering leak with pics. help please!
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Joined: Mar 2007
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From: coral springs FL
Power steering leak with pics. help please! so I took out the pump ,lines and reservoir to fix something else, then put everything back on. Stupidity got in my mind and I skiped the proper fill up (rising the car and moving the steering wheel side to side bla bla) and just pour cheap fluid with the car running. The pump started to make a whine noise and now I got a leak. I dont want to get my hands dirty until I know whats needs to be fix or replace. any help would be welcome!!
Is it slinging fluid onto the underside of the hood? If so the seal is dry from the pulley shaft going into the pump and is leaking out. With it squealing it most likely needs to be replaced anyway. If it is not slinging then turn attention to high pressure lines. Clean all of that gunk as much as possible with something like Simple Green then do the lock-to-lock test again with the car jacked up and see what you can see.
