Re: IML: pw steering pump hose for '61

[Mark Pappas <lillyvine@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI There .. From my experience with power steering and leaks.... , 
Sometimes a hose will have a pin hole in it and not leak until it gets 
hot.. If you run the vehicle up to operating temp and then have a 
helper turn turn the wheel from one direction to the other several 
times you will see where the fluid is spitting out... Bye 4 now..
On Jul 7, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Phil Courant wrote:

> Hi all,
> My friend RL Brezout (who has the splendid '61 Shriner convertible) 
> has a lot of problem with his power steering system : after some miles 
> or turns the steering box looses all the fluid through the bottom !
> - The steering box has been replaced and then overhauled with new 
> gaskets, o-rings etc..
> - 4 pumps has been tested. The check valve has been adjusted a lot of 
> time.
> All with no or limited time effects .. Yesterday the steering box has 
> spit all the fluid for the tenth time !!
>
> So maybe ther's a problem with the high pressure hose. It has been 
> replaced with a new one but seems that this new hose hasn't the right 
> diameters . On my '57 the hose is a 2 diameters affair, a large at the 
> pumm and a small at the box, the two are equally lenghts. It seems to 
> me that '61 has the same hose. Could someone check and agree ?
>
> Another question, what is the purpose of this 2 diameters hoses ? And 
> do you think that it could be the problem ?
>
> Thanks
>
> If you reply privatly please do that at my normal adress 
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>
>
>
> Philippe COURANT (Pau, France)- Webmaster des sites ACCF et C-I-F
> Imperial 1957 Crown convertible
> Buick 1996 Roadmaster wagon
>
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