Re: IML: power steering leak - O rings

["Robin Giesbrecht" <robings@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can buy rebuild kits for the power steering pump that are really only a 
seal kit. There is a big oring that seals the whole canister and a few more 
seals for the shaft and the relief valve I think. Not that hard to do.

Robin Giesbrecht
72 Imperial


> From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: IML: power steering leak  - O rings
> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:26:56 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>
> --- Chris Strohmeyer <chrisstroh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Kenyan said...........
> >
> > 4.  "Bad o-rings"?  Anyone else that works on cars
> > where you live?  That sounds like bad advice to me,
> > but it may be out of context and part of other info
> > that he gave?
> >
> > Aren't there 1 or 2 large o rings on the power
> > steering pump that seals the
> > reservoir can?
> >
> > Chris
>
>
>
> True.  There are o-rings.  The way that the thing's
> put together sorta precludes catastrophic fluid loss
> as described in the letter posted here, but to address
> the question:
>
> If I were going to pay a mechanic to deal with this, I
> would buy a replacement pump unit that comes with a
> warranty so that I didn't have to worry about it.
>
> Reason being that I don't agree with paying a mechanic
> to only partially rebuild a pump for a labor charge
> that could very likely equal or exceed the cost of a
> replacement.  I would pay the rehab factory that will
> give a warranty do that portion instead and get the
> whole thing spec'd out by someone that does nothing
> but.  That's what I'd do, anyway.
>
> Also, a failed O-ring seal is highly unlikely to cause
> the sort of rapid fluid loss described, so that's what
> I was thinking based on the info given, but I wasn't
> there.
>
>
> Please use an o in my name.  I'm particular about
> that.
>
>
> -Kenyon
>
>
>
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