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Power steering leak

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napes65

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A friend's 1999 Grand Prix steerring got stiff. He said he has been adding fluid a lot lately and had just filled it within 3 days. Reservoir was pretty much empty when I checked it, I jacked it up, added some fluid and turned the wheel. Fluid pretty much came pouring out of the drivers side boot. What is he looking at here. Is there a replaceable seal in there? Or worse? Doesn't look fun to get to.
 


let me add, you dont need to remove the master cylinder, and air box, those line can be gotten from underneath the car., drop the cradle like 2 inches, put a bottle jack under the rear cross bar, hold it up with said jack, loosen the 2 rear frame bolts down to the last of the threads, lower the jack till the cradle is almost to the bolts, this will give you more room to get the old rack out the wheel well opening, as it dont look like it will fit, but it does, turn it like the write up says to, it works.
 
Thanks for the info. Pretty much confirms what I was afraid of. But since I am in the middle of a complete rebuild of his Ram 1500 engine that imploded he is going to have to prioritize which he wants working first I guess. Am I right in thinking that I can rip one of these units out of any similar GM?
 
you have to make sure its the same rack, but yes the same rack is shared among a bunch of cars, regal, intrigue. the car you are working on may have magna steer, if so there will be a wire coming from the area where the steering shaft is, and it goes up towards the head of the engine. thats where the disconnect is.
 
Found some remanufactured units for a decent price and I have gone over the instructions you posted. I have 1 question about step #5. I'm a little fuzzy on the "securely rock and lock engine in the forward position." I don't have the car here yet so I cant really get a picture in my head of what this is asking me to do. Can you clarify that one?
 


i did not rock my engine forward at all to do this, left that part out myself.

but if you like, off the radiator support, there are 2 "dog bones" that connect to the front of the engine, unbolt them from the engine and use a ratchet strap to pull/hold the engine forward. same procedure as if you were going to change the rear spark plugs.
 
Thanks, will try it without that step as well. I had this motor in an Olds, don't remember having to do that for my plug changes. Must have had more space. What a lousy design.
 
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