Power Steering Fluid Leak Repair

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Power Steering Fluid Leak RepairThe difficulty of the power steering fluid leak repair job you’re facing has a lot to do with the location of the leak.  Like any fluid system, sometimes it can seem like fluid can leak from just about anywhere.  When it comes to engine oil leaks, that’s just about true.  Luckily, power steering fluid leak repair is made easier by the limited number of locations power steering fluid can leak from.

Power Steering Fluid Leak Locations:

  • Fluid Reservoir
  • High-Pressure Line
  • Low-pressure Line
  • Pump Seals
  • Steering Column Input Seal
  • Pitman Arm seal or Inner Tie Rod Seal

If you’ve got a slowly lowering fluid level in your reservoir, then you’ve got a leak at one of these locations.  You may have noticed a leak because you’re a savvy automobile owner and regularly check your vehicle’s various fluid levels, but more than likely you found out the hard when your car started making strange noises or suddenly had a really hard to turn steering wheel.  A low power steering level can make the power steering pump in your car get noisy as it loses lubrication from a low fluid level, or even due to air being entrained in the fluid as the pump pulls from an empty or even near empty reservoir.  A low power steering fluid level can also mean a loss of fluid pressure which will suddenly cause your steering to be very difficult which can be dangerous.

Luckily, power steering fluid leak repair is often accomplished quickly and easily.  The easiest leaks to repair are those coming from your fluid reservoir.  The power steering fluid reservoir is always mounted in an easily accessible place in your engine bay so fluid additions can be made easily.  Since the reservoir is easy to get to, repair a leak there is easy as well.  If the leak is due to a cracked reservoir, simply head to a junkyard or a dealership to find a replacement reservoir to stop the leak.  If the leak is from a hose going to or from a reservoir, it is also simple to fix as the lines or often easily accessible and since they’re not pressurized, only require hand tools to remove and replace.

High or low-pressure lines are similarly easy to diagnose looks from and repair.  Leaks will most often be where the lines attached to the pump or steering gear or rack or where the line transitions from a soft line to a hard line hear the pump.  If you find a leak in a pressure line, simply replace that line.  Since these are pressure lines they will require an open end or line wrench to remove, but they come off and go on quickly.

Seal leaks, like the seal on your pump, the seal where the steering column enters the gear or rack, or seals by the inner tie rod ends are a bit of a different story.  The seals in your power steering system are not serviceable seals like those from your camshafts or crankshafts.  That means if a seal is starting to leak, the only way to replace that seal is to replace the whole pump, rack or steering gear.

The good news is that replacing the seals in your power steering system isn’t the only way to stop a leak!  The easiest way to stop a power steering fluid seal leak is to add BlueDevil Power Steering Stop Leak to your power steering fluid reservoir, then go for a drive!  BlueDevil Power Steering Stop Leak will recondition the seals in your power steering system repairing the leak without replacing any equipment.

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