How important is my Power Steering cooler
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How important is my Power Steering cooler
Need a quick fix. I have an 89 K2500 4WD Suburban with a 350, The truck is loaded down for a 12 hour drive tomorrow morning and I just noticed a leak in the Power steering hose gong from the steering box to the cooler. I have to leave tomorrow morning but no one around has a new cooler in stock. I'm thinking of cutting the hoses to andd from the cooler and splicing together with a pipe and hose clamps. What are your thoughts? (No negative yelling please.)
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CF Monarch
Don't have one on my 25 year old Chevy K-1500. It has synthetic PS fluid however..Just more crap you don't need, IMO.
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It is the hose. It appears that the hoses are crimped to the cooler tube. I don't notice the hole when the truck is not running, but when I turn it on there is a pretty good leak coming from the hose about an inch before the crimp just above where the hose routs under the fan shroud. I doubt there is enough room to patch it but I could cut the hose at the leak and splice it into the return hose or possibly just attach to the pump return tube itself.
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Need a quick fix. I have an 89 K2500 4WD Suburban with a 350, The truck is loaded down for a 12 hour drive tomorrow morning and I just noticed a leak in the Power steering hose gong from the steering box to the cooler. I have to leave tomorrow morning but no one around has a new cooler in stock. I'm thinking of cutting the hoses to and from the cooler and splicing together with a pipe and hose clamps. What are your thoughts? (No negative yelling please.)
On my 1998 and 2004 Frontiers and 1988 Mazda truck, the power steering fluid "cooler" is simply a "U" shaped steel tube.
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