"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
09/14/2014 at 00:28 • Filed to: camry, beuge | 1 | 6 |
Feels so nice to have power steering in the Camry again that DOESN'T LEAK. Just sucks I spent all night at work to replace my leaky rack that I made manual so it didn't leak until I had time to fix it. Which was today. From 2PM till about 10. Ugh.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> Takuro Spirit
09/14/2014 at 00:33 | 1 |
Power steering fluid leaked in my wife's Sable like a mother, dripped on some fan belt and made a lovely burning smell. And that noise when you crank the wheel to turn... EEEERRRRREEEEE-GRRRRRR-KCH-KCH
EL_ULY
> Takuro Spirit
09/14/2014 at 00:36 | 0 |
At least you had it up on a rack in the shop. I did one at home on the floor like 2 weeks ago. Not fun, especially when everything is cross threaded (my friends 98 Crayola).
Takuro Spirit
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
09/14/2014 at 10:06 | 1 |
Mine was leaking from the rack on both sides, but would only leak when parked so when I moved to where I am now it left spots all over the "new" driveway. I cut the belt off to stop it and it worked, but I waited too long to put in a replacement rack. Feels so goood.
Takuro Spirit
> EL_ULY
09/14/2014 at 10:09 | 0 |
Everything went perfect and easy until it came to taking the lines out of the rack. They were too close together to get a line wrench on them, and too close to the transmission and charcoal canister to use a regular wrench. THEN, it took me an HOUR to get the last line back into the 'new' rack. Couldn't get it lined up properly to where the threads would engage.
I had considered doing it at home on the garage floor but FUK DOT, I'm glad I did it work on the lift with someone else's tools :D
EL_ULY
> Takuro Spirit
09/14/2014 at 11:57 | 0 |
yeah its impossible getting those 2 in on those in a new rack. They just don't catch the dreads. Did the steering column give you a hard time? Sometimes they do not want to split
Takuro Spirit
> EL_ULY
09/14/2014 at 18:08 | 0 |
Mine split really easy. Getting the joint onto the junkyard rack was another matter. A little prying and spreading and forcing a punch through the bolt hole got it lined up though.