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Nauticare94 01-07-2024 07:52 PM

CRAZY Power Steering Leak
 
My e70 3.0 has developed a massive power steering leak. It's spraying from the area of PS cooler pipes below the upper radiator hose, something like a quart in about 10-15 seconds. I haven't taken the radiator out yet to inspect the cooler. Seems like a no brainer, there's only one thing in there that can leak PS fluid. I ordered a cooler, but it's days out.

In the meantime, we still need to use the car. Since we have cold weather (January in Tennessee) I made the decision to temporarily bypass the cooler and ordered some hoses for later. I cut the hoses in the car and bypassed the cooler entirely. Fired the engine up and it's still spraying like crazy from the same area.

Something I'm missing???? I can't see any way that power steering fluid is being routed up to where this sucker is leaking. RealOEM doesn't show anything in there beyond what I can see in the car. TIA, any input is massively appreciated.

***UPDATE***

I let it run until the fluid was near empty, which slowed the flow and allowed me to see it leaking from between the pump and accumulator. In what was a complete cloud of fluid, it was spraying from there to the bottom of the upper rad hose.


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