Re: IML: pw steering pump hose for '61

[randalpark@xxxxxxx]

It could be a defective lower shaft seal.

Paul W.


-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Courant <phil-57@xxxxxxxx>
To: IML <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 12:59 pm
Subject: IML: pw steering pump hose for '61



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

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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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