YIKES--serious corrosion on Power Steering lines

From: Ken L Mansfield (KMansfie@compucom.com)
Date: Thu Jan 02 1997 - 09:25:40 EST


While looking for a intermittent "ticking" sound under the hood, I
noticed that the metal elbows connecting the PS lines to the pump and
to the rack have a large amount of white and orange corrosion on
them. I have heard that PS fluid goes acidic when it gets old but is
there a service interval in the manual? It is not leakage from the
battery, although the corrosion looks the same as you would find on
the battery.

Does anyone else have this problem?

BTW--the "ticking" sound seems to be coming from the alternator or
coil and kinda sounds like an electrical arc.

Time to use that 7/100 again.

klm
 



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