VANAGON archives -- April 2007, week 2 (#202)

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:01:24 -0400 Reply-To: Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: is power steering fluid generic? In-Reply-To: <461C31BC.9080401@verizon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Yeah, but it was visibly and rapidly dripping fluid with the van parked and the engine off, six weeks ago when this happened.

Do the power steering lines run right under the sliding door?

**************************************************************** Joy Hecht now living in a real house in northern Virginia and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years lugging Joy and her stuff around...

For musings about life traveling in the van or living in one place: http://www.joyhecht.net

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:::-----Original Message----- :::From: Mike Collum [mailto:collum@verizon.net] :::Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:54 PM :::To: Joy Hecht :::Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM :::Subject: Re: is power steering fluid generic? ::: :::Joy, ::: :::You could have a pinhole leak in the high pressure line which is small :::enough that no fluid escapes until you turn the steering wheel all the :::way to the left or the right (into the "Stops"). When the wheels are :::turned to their extremes, the pressure is much higher than when you are :::driving normally. ::: :::Mike ::: ::: ::: :::Joy Hecht wrote: :::> So I don't know what the problem was, or whether I have a problem now. :::Any :::> brilliant ideas? What would drip from right under the slider, between :::the :::> two right wheels? And be oily? And have stopped dripping?

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