Just replace the whole thing, trust me on this. I took a hacksaw to mine, Sunday, and after buying even more 'manly' hose clamps, while I *did* manage to keep the hose couplers from blowing off, for a third time, I didn't manage to either keep the flow through the hose 100%, or maybe running dry for ten seconds was all the pump needed to 'give up'. Regardless, idle=not much power in the power steering. Revving it up to like, 1,500 makes the pump whine a bit, but it does work.
Needless to say, I'll be swinging by the Dodge dealer, today, to get a new hose, being as my 'fix', while it *did* fix the leak, made the car less useable. Not good.
Live and learn. I'd like to smack the guy who designed a rubber-encased metal pressure line. Just doesn't make sense, at least to me. Must keep *most* of the pressure in the metal, as it's *not* fluid-tight....
Now, to figure out how I'm gonna get a wrench on the rack end of that hose...man, that's a tight fit back in there...
Besides, that hose, two O2 sensors, and probably a new PS pump, our '95's 100K mile blues had better be over. Maybe I'll be putting those struts off....
Kelly B
'95 ES, 3.5, 108K mi, OEM tranny, rebuilt front-end, finally found rotors which *don't* warp...
Needless to say, I'll be swinging by the Dodge dealer, today, to get a new hose, being as my 'fix', while it *did* fix the leak, made the car less useable. Not good.
Live and learn. I'd like to smack the guy who designed a rubber-encased metal pressure line. Just doesn't make sense, at least to me. Must keep *most* of the pressure in the metal, as it's *not* fluid-tight....
Now, to figure out how I'm gonna get a wrench on the rack end of that hose...man, that's a tight fit back in there...
Besides, that hose, two O2 sensors, and probably a new PS pump, our '95's 100K mile blues had better be over. Maybe I'll be putting those struts off....
Kelly B
'95 ES, 3.5, 108K mi, OEM tranny, rebuilt front-end, finally found rotors which *don't* warp...