Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 09:51 am, by: Oki Zoubari(Oki)
OK guys, looks like the nice guys at TurboTune on South road had severed/ crushed the low pressure POWER STEERING COOLER pipe at the location where it just crosses under the sump, I remember they called me an hour after they started work on the car, and told me that there is a power-steering leak which was never there before I took the car to them.
Now after being fed up with topping the reservoir every few days, I jacked the car and traced the leak to one of the 2 pipes (low pressure cooler pipe), it was crushed from the top and touching the bottom of the sump, I pulled it back from the sump to inspect damage and now it leaks quicker as the flow is not slowed by the bottom of sump,
My guess they never changed a power-steering rack bushes on a soarer or any other car, and they used a crow bar or something to push on the lines in order to put the big grommet ( passenger side) and the lower bush ( driver side), No wonder, they rang me and said we cannot do the top bush as it involves removing the cross member and that's a lot of work, we are not interested, guess, the mechanic after crushing my cooler line didn't feel like damaging more on the car,
I went to pirtek and Enzed and they both said, you need to take out the pipe, we don't do that, one estimated a mechanic would charge me 400 to remove the pipe and 150 to fix pipe.
For the people who removed the pipes and even engines out of the Soarer, any easy way to be able to remove that pipe without having to remove the engine, I can see there is a common bracket holding the pipes to the floor of the car just behind the big steering rack grommet ( passenger side)
How do you reach that bracket to unscrew?
Anyway to be able to remove the pipe without removing half the car, I am thinking of putting epoxy on the crushed pipe and see if that will seal it hopefully and I wont need to remove the pipe for repair.
