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Power Steering Fluid Leak with a New Twist

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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by osufans
awesome, glad to hear all is doing well. i'm pretty sure mine is fixed too...but it's been too cold and i've been too lazy to get under and find out.
Or you could pop the hood and look down in there?

Regardless, gotta check out my 2 links....hehehe
 
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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by dirtydog
Or you could pop the hood and look down in there?
You DO see the snow on my hood, don't you?!!
 
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Old Jan 25, 2009 | 02:02 PM
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Discovered a puddle of red fluid in my garage after the really cold days of last week here in Ohio (-15 F). At first I was afraid it was tranny fluid, as I changed my tranny fluid myself over the summer (I always doubt the quality of my own work for some reason). Crawled under the truck to find its actually PS fluid coming from the send/return hose(s) that transfer fluid from the res to the cooler up front. Going to try to clamp these things off, as it looks like I've lost at least a cup or two of fluid. No chance of cleaning anything up though, as its snowing here AGAIN.
 
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Old Jan 25, 2009 | 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by osufans
You DO see the snow on my hood, don't you?!!

Well then there's no need to even see if anything is leaking of your not driving it right?
 
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Old Jan 25, 2009 | 02:30 PM
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mine had been leaking for months, i felt like such an idiot. my truck is lifted, so it was really easy. i sat underneath it, and about 1 minute later and a hose clamp on the upper hose, it was fixed. i also found a trans line that was leaking...same thing, a hose clamp and it was fixed. on the power steering, the hose was sooo loose, i touched it and it would "spin" on the fitting. it looked like a crimped steel band was around it.
 
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