UPDATE: Leak found! See my post on 8-19-2013
Hey guys,
It seems like with every passing winter, everything rubber on the car deteriorates incredibly quickly. I've noticed that my power steering leak has become quite bad. I did as others have suggested here: Degrease and clean all of the hoses, drive around and check it again. So, these are my results with the arrows pointing to where I can see the red fluid forming drops:




Full resolution album here.
First of all, there's nasty caked on grease everywhere in the engine compartment basically from the power steering reservoir and down. The hoses from the reservoir though don't really look like they're leaking - they are a bit shiny with grease, but I don't really know how to determine if it's leaking from the top, and then just trickling down onto where I'm seeing. Any thoughts on how to better detect a leak from the reservoir?
Should all of these hoses just be replaced, or should I start with tightening hose clamps?
Also, here's a random piece of rubber that plopped on the ground while I was removing the reservoir bracket:

Does anyone know where this goes?
Thanks a lot!
Hey guys,
It seems like with every passing winter, everything rubber on the car deteriorates incredibly quickly. I've noticed that my power steering leak has become quite bad. I did as others have suggested here: Degrease and clean all of the hoses, drive around and check it again. So, these are my results with the arrows pointing to where I can see the red fluid forming drops:




Full resolution album here.
First of all, there's nasty caked on grease everywhere in the engine compartment basically from the power steering reservoir and down. The hoses from the reservoir though don't really look like they're leaking - they are a bit shiny with grease, but I don't really know how to determine if it's leaking from the top, and then just trickling down onto where I'm seeing. Any thoughts on how to better detect a leak from the reservoir?
Should all of these hoses just be replaced, or should I start with tightening hose clamps?
Also, here's a random piece of rubber that plopped on the ground while I was removing the reservoir bracket:

Does anyone know where this goes?
Thanks a lot!
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