Well me and my mechanic noticed my low/or high line has a little build up around one of the metal/hose seals i havnt even noticed the res go down over around 1,000 miles and it never even drips on the ground so I dont think its calling for a hose replacement how does that lucas sealing stuff work??

 

I was thinking the same cause I have some residue from one of the hoses also cant tell which 1 yet tho. Car has 26k miles I cleaned it up and drove maybe 100 miles since with nothin showing. I would like to try flushing the fluid and putting new in then using some kind of stop leak.

 

how do we drain the Powersteerin on these cars?? it has to be new cuz we busted it off for the rebuild but ill redo it i guess... how much lucas with power steering the res is halfway full i can fill it up all the way or would that be overfull??


spdfrk, we wiped my hose and it over time sitting on the lift it just got wet again (around the seal) but like i said it doesnt LEAK on the ground or lose a big amount to make the res go down..

 

Yeh I think this might be common on these cars. Search for flushing power steering fluid you should find the answer.

 

search is still down bump.... anyone tryed it... i know LUCAS products are all great usualy but before I spend another $7

the line costs like $25 and id like to pass since I gotta replace my AC lines ($70-$80) since they are hosed

 

Everyone I've talked to lauds Lucas products to no end.

I always ask people that come up to my counter with Lucas fuel injector cleaner/oil stabilizer/transmission treatment whether they've used the stuff before and the answer is almost always a resounding "OF COURSE."


However, I've never seen anyone buy the power steering conditioner. I kinda want to try it myself......

 

iv seen on here where the transmission stuff supposidly works... im sure all there fluids are good for anything they are made for but if it will really fix a leak im always ehhh

leaks are 2 unsealing surfaces spread apart or that let blowby at pressure and a liquid to seal that **** is like ehhh......... (thinks of the head gasket fix cans at autozone rofl)

 

Yup. It works... I have used it on several occations thus far, with excellent results.

If you do use it... try and pre heat the stuff before you try and pour it in. It is holysheitmuslim thick and stringy... but works.

I give it 's up.

 

hmm sounds good so far lol... my res it halfway full just fill it up all the way eh and then run the car?? or is that to full i was looking how to bleed the power steering in my chilton i didnt see ****

 

I would not add it so that the reservoir is full. You could take a turkey baster and suck some of the old fluid out and put the lucas stuff in there so its to the hot or cold line on the dipstick depending on what temp its at. FWIW, I was experiencing some noise and leaking from the powersteering pump a while back and when I added the lucas PS oil the noise and leaking stopped so I think it is good stuff.

 

I've only had bad luck with "stop leak" products.

Some of them just add a solvent that happens to
make rubber soften and swell up. Yeah, stops the
leak if it's a rubber shaft seal. For a while. But soft
rubber wears even faster than before and when
the solvent has escaped (which it will) the seal
shrinks back even worse than before.

And sometimes a soft seal, means other rubber
bits got soft too whether it needed that, or not.
Lost a TH400 that way, decades back. Went
from a nose weep to no gear, and pretty quick.

Buyer beware is all I can tell you.

 

I too am in the camp of not using any sort of stop leak product (unless it is an emergency to get somewhere and that is all that is available).

The way I see it is that each 'wet' component in a car was designed for a specific liquid to be used in that system. Whenever adding anything other than that specific fluid, you run the risk of problems. Without a lot of R&D, I am not going to be putting most stop-leak products in my car.

 

well im gonna give it a shot it im sure it will help out the rack atleast if it doesnt stop the leak im gonna drain the resovior with my little hand pump and start dumping the lucas in ill see how it works