Help With Leak???
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Help With Leak???
I have a leak and it seem to be coming from the driver side on the front right off of the frame rail, The are some fittings there and the leak started out small and it is getting bigger and bigger. What can it be? Let me so that i know what i am looking for.
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Sounds like power steering to me.
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Can you tell what color the fluid is? Have you checked the level of fluid in the brake reservoir, and power steering reservoir?
Power steering leak will be red (its ATF)
Power steering leak will be red (its ATF)
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Ok so if the fluid is red you are prob dealing with a power steering leak. You can try to tighten the fittings however it may not help. What you are seeing is the early stages of a hose failure. Best coarse of action would be to determine what hose is leaking (wrap suspected leak area in white cloth) then simply remove and replace. There are two hose that could be leaking,when it happened on my truck I replaced them both.
Replacing the hoses is not bad: Remove battery/ Air filter and inter cooler pipe for better access to the hoses, when complete a good flush with a high quality synthetic ATF will help smooth thing out a bit. Ill try to find the link on flushing power steering system
Replacing the hoses is not bad: Remove battery/ Air filter and inter cooler pipe for better access to the hoses, when complete a good flush with a high quality synthetic ATF will help smooth thing out a bit. Ill try to find the link on flushing power steering system
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I am thinking it might be CCV oil seepage/drip from the bottom of the CAC boot (the blue rubber boot). I had some motor oil on the frame in that area as well. Before I did the CCV mod I had seepage at the bottom of the boot which is above the frame area. Run your hand along the underside of the boot and see if motor oil comes off.