Power steering hose - any help on how to repair?

[Max Turbo]

Hi,

The 306 I have just bought, along with a few other niggles, has a PAS leak.

The hose is a Pug only replacement and they want £150 for it so I need to find an alternative solution!!

The fail is on a join between a metal section of the pipe and where it transitions to a thick walled rubber hose (similar to coolant hoses). The metal pipe is approx 10mm in diameter, and the rubber hose is a 5/8" hose. There is a big metal sleeve that goes over the rubber hose and it looks like it has had a mega crimping tool on it to crimp it on to the hose. I would guess there is a metal section inside the rubber hose to provide suitable support.

Anyway, this is the area it is leaking from.

Any suggestions on how I can cut out this bad section, and replace it? It needs to be a permanent solution.

Thanks

[Max Turbo]

bimsb6 said:

AdeTuono said:

bimsb6 said:

AdeTuono said:

warped head said:

pry off the crimped sleeve, find offending area, cut off bad section of pipe and then jubilee clamp it back on

job done

Unless this was written with tongue in cheek, ignore it. There's a reason the hoses are crimped in the first place, and not Jubilee clipped.

cost being the main one !

You honestly think it's cheaper to manufacture a pair high-pressure pipe fittings, with metal-to-metal seal areas, one screwed into a prepped tapping and the other physically swaged onto a piece of high-pressure flexible hose, than to push a bit of cheap rubber hose onto a spigot and hold it on with a cheap banded clip? OK, if you insist.

and you can tell from the description given what this hose does and the type of pressure it is being run at ? you should be on the telly !

In fairness, it is the pressure pipe going from the pump to the rack, not the return pipe. It pisses out fluid when the steering is applied, so a jubilee clip isn't on the cards. This needs to be a suitably permanent solution that doesn't leave the OH stranded.

I won't be going to Pug for this part. I will try some the online parts gateway to see if I can get one, then local scrappers. I might give Pirtek a call tomorrow also, as they are only 20 odd miles away and I can use one of the other cars to get there with the pipe.

Thanks everyone!

[Wing Commander]

Wow, that is some thread resurrection! Suffice to say, I don't even have the car anymore!