power steering woh's

[malcons66]

well last night i was driving back from work and i herd my power steering pump whining. i thought that was odd because i just put some fluid in about two days ago. so today i drove by the parts store and put about two quarts in!. i drive to work, on the way home it starts whining again! so i got home and parked it. i look under the car (car still running) and power steering fluid is literally spraying out of the fitting where the pressure hose connects to the control valve. so i take a look and there is a small slit in the hose. i cut the hose and slid a little more down and over the copper rodding. i crank it up again and it starts dripping from the fitting taht connects to the control valve again. so i shut it off. i unscrew the hose from the control valve and the hose is a little worn onthe top. i put some teflon around the valve to see if that helps and sure enough it didnt. so i put the car on some jack stands so i could really see what was going on. the fluid is comming out the inside of the fitting that slides over the copper rodding. so im thinking maybe the hose is bad? so i ordered a new pressure hose and it should be in tomorrow around noon.hopfully that will fix my problems. i dont think the control valve is bad, it didnt look like the valve, just the hose and fitting..

any thoughts on this?
thanks
-malcon

 

[malcons66]

oh yeah, and from cj pony parts the hose was 35. from advanced auto parts it was 23.00..
..jerks

 

[malcons66]

anybody every run into this problem?

 

[malcons66]

im going to stop responding to my own thread haha. i hate all of you...just kidding
haha ill show all of you! when i fix it tomorrow...

PS: dont you hate when you get power steering fluid in your hair and you dont relize it, and then your blonde, good looking neighbor comes over and talks to you and the whole time you look like a complete idiot and never even relize it.......yeah i do...she's probably laughing at me right now. WHY!

 

[66mustangg]

i love how you keep responding to yourself lol but yeah i had a lot of power steering problems... it started off with just a blown hose then i ended up replacing just about everything in my powersteering. after i started taking it appart i realized that differnt things needed replacing

 

[malcons66]

haha yeah..
anyway i hope i dont have to replace everytjhing...
it always happens right as your trying to buy something for the car. you almost to where you can afford it and something breaks...there gos the money for that.
pay to play i guess

 

[Jester67]

oh yeah, and from cj pony parts the hose was 35. from advanced auto parts it was 23.00..
..jerks

Well I like CJ they have good parts for reasonable prices. Having said that you might find that when you get the one from advance it is a “one size fits none” this has been my experience with the power steering hoses that they sell. Don’t get wrong it will connect to the ends but it is generic and too long to fit correctly.

 

[malcons66]

when i get it in (it wasnt in on time today! i came back twice and two different times (they told me to come back both of these times...both times they still didnt have it....if its not the right one im going to go ahead and forget about them...i love cj pony parts, aswell as the npd. very good. but yeah if its not the right hose. ill busta lip