Hey guys, I have a power steering leak at the rack that I tracked down tonight to the pressure hose fitting. I thought that it would be leaking from the fitting where it meets the rack, but it's actually leaking where the metal hose meets the fitting at the point that allows the fitting to spin and the metal hose to swivel.
Here is what my pressure hose looks like and where it's leaking:
The history on this is that I replaced the rack with a reman one from LMR several months ago along with a reman Ford pump. For some reason I didn't think to just replace the hoses at the same time, but I really should have while I had the rack out instead of reusing the old hoses...
Everything was great until a couple months later when I was driving and noticed the PS pump whining much louder than usual. Thankfully I was very close to home so I parked the car and saw that there was a lot of fluid leaking near the rack fittings. It was so bad that the next day when I checked I found the pump was completely dry and a puddle of fluid underneath the car.
At that point I said screw it, and ordered new return and pressure hoses. I installed them and within a day it was leaking again! It's not nearly as bad as the first time but definitely still leaking and that brings me to tonight when I traced it down to the pressure hose rack-side fitting. It doesn't leak much just sitting there, but you can see it visibly leaking when you start the car.
So I'm wondering, have any of you guys ever experienced this problem? Is it possible I got a bad pressure hose?
The new return hose I got has a different type of fitting than the pressure hose, with a black o-ring that you put on the end before installing and looks like this:
The pressure hose is a "Type III" fitting where the o-ring is internal and not accessible. I think either should work, since the new return hose doesn't leak, and the old hoses were both type III.
Any advice you guys can give would be really awesome. Thanks!
Here is what my pressure hose looks like and where it's leaking:
The history on this is that I replaced the rack with a reman one from LMR several months ago along with a reman Ford pump. For some reason I didn't think to just replace the hoses at the same time, but I really should have while I had the rack out instead of reusing the old hoses...
Everything was great until a couple months later when I was driving and noticed the PS pump whining much louder than usual. Thankfully I was very close to home so I parked the car and saw that there was a lot of fluid leaking near the rack fittings. It was so bad that the next day when I checked I found the pump was completely dry and a puddle of fluid underneath the car.
At that point I said screw it, and ordered new return and pressure hoses. I installed them and within a day it was leaking again! It's not nearly as bad as the first time but definitely still leaking and that brings me to tonight when I traced it down to the pressure hose rack-side fitting. It doesn't leak much just sitting there, but you can see it visibly leaking when you start the car.
So I'm wondering, have any of you guys ever experienced this problem? Is it possible I got a bad pressure hose?
The new return hose I got has a different type of fitting than the pressure hose, with a black o-ring that you put on the end before installing and looks like this:
The pressure hose is a "Type III" fitting where the o-ring is internal and not accessible. I think either should work, since the new return hose doesn't leak, and the old hoses were both type III.
Any advice you guys can give would be really awesome. Thanks!