Power steering u bend remedy

[LeggitS3]

Hello all,

Not sure if this will help anyone but thought I'd post up in case as I couldn't find anything similar in the archives.

I got fed up with the power steering pipe from the reservoir into the steel u bend leaking, being tightened, leaking again etc. (yeah I know it serves me right for being a girl and having PAS).

So I ordered up a heavy duty pipe with built in u bend which turned up ripped. So there we were, in a shed, cold, but with coffee and got to thinking what if we could change the pump so the steel inlet pipe was not at an angle thus removing the need for the u bend?

The inlet pipe was sweated into the pump rather than screwed in but we had a new bit made up and sweated in and sealed and voila, one join onto the pump instead of three and the same price as buying and fitting the heavy duty one.

Chris at JMS in Kent sorted it with his engineer mate and it really is a tidy job.

As I said, not sure if it'll help anyone but its also a story of how british things are made: In sheds!

Cheers

Leggit

[lotusandy]

Hi, My newly acquired Chim is pas fluid leaking from the same place, would be interested in more details of this fix, where/who are JMS? I am nr Canterbury in kent.

Thanks Andy

[Pasco]

Hi mate take a look at this....


http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...



HTH

Pasco

[HRG]

Arse, I was just going to post this

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

[Pasco]

HRG said:

Arse, I was just going to post this

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

Too Slowwwww Robby

[HRG]

I'm on the cusp of getting one but as today is the first day I've been on the road officially I don't know if I can be arsed

Besides, I lost half an arm getting a new jubilee clip on mine last week

[Pasco]

HRG said:

I'm on the cusp of getting one but as today is the first day I've been on the road officially I don't know if I can be arsed

Besides, I lost half an arm getting a new jubilee clip on mine last week

So when the clip fails again and dumps PAS fluid all over your hot exhaust

[HRG]

It won't rust

If you can get discount I'll jump in, otherwise I'll do it whenever.... I've put five coats of wax on the old girl this week, there's no way I want to get dirty fingerprints on her now

[Pasco]

HRG said:

It won't rust

If you can get discount I'll jump in, otherwise I'll do it whenever.... I've put five coats of wax on the old girl this week, there's no way I want to get dirty fingerprints on her now

Keep an eye over the Fence then mate

[HRG]

It's in my My Topics and I'm watching closely

:rubs fingerless mits:

[LeggitS3]

I started off with a hose similar to that in set up which came out of the packet torn at the coupling, so we changed the joint on the pump as I couldn't be bothered to wait for another one. That braided one does look the business though!

That said the change cost about £160 but it removed the need for any kind of join / ubend with the pipe going from the reservoir straight onto the pump.

Andy, JMS are about 30 minutes from you in Faversham if that's any good.

Leggit

[Uncle Fester]

LeggitS3 said:

I started off with a hose similar to that in set up which came out of the packet torn at the coupling, so we changed the joint on the pump as I couldn't be bothered to wait for another one. That braided one does look the business though!

That said the change cost about £160 but it removed the need for any kind of join / ubend with the pipe going from the reservoir straight onto the pump.

Andy, JMS are about 30 minutes from you in Faversham if that's any good.

Leggit

The contact details on the JMS website are the old ones. Do you have the new ones?