High pressure connection on power steering

[Curt Sprenger]

Gardner,
Seems your doing fine. Don't stop. It's a learning process...

On Nov 28, 2007 6:45 PM, Gardner Yeaw wrote:

> I took off all the stuff around the steering column and the fitting
> was right there. I could never have reached it through the battery
> box because it is just even with the floor and there would be no way
> to swing a wrench. Who ever tightened it up was on a power trip. It
> took every trick in the book and a trip to Sears for a longer 1 inch
> open end wrench to break it loose. Even then I had to use a pry bar
> against the wrench while pulling with all my might.
>
> It's off now and I will be going to the hose maker in the morning to
> get a new one made up.
>
> I got the new pulley on the new pump, then took the new pulley
> off the new pump so I could get the bolts out to mount the bracket.
> Then I put the new pulley back on. As I always say, plan ahead. Now
> if I could just stop saying it and do it!
>
> Gardner
> 78FC33
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com,
> "Mike Hohnstein"
> <MHOHNSTEIN@...> wrote:
> >
> > Pull the battery box, then you can actually see the steering box.
> > MH
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Gardner Yeaw
> > To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:28 PM
> > Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] High pressure connection on power
> steering
> >
> >
> > Is it possable to disconnect and reconnect the high pressure
> > connection on an FC from the access panel in the floor. I need
> to do it
> > tonight to have a new hose made up. I got a new power steering
> pump but
> > the connection is not the same. The cost of shipping will far
> exceed a
> > new hose, and a new hose is a good idea anyway.
> > From lookiang at the pictures in the phot section it seems
> possible,
> > but probably a real pain.
> >
> > Gardner
> > 78FC33
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Curt Sprenger
1987 PT38 8V92 "MacAttack Racing"
Anaheim Hills, CA


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