kulfurs
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- Joined
- May 10, 2019
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- usa
- My Car
- 1973 Mustang Convertible and a 2004 40th Anniversary Mustang convertible
Ok guys bear with me on this one. The p/s reservoir's was leaking on my 73 where the big o ring is. So i changed just the o ring and the rear seal because everything else was working fine. After putting everything back together and doing the air bleed procedure the steering was hard as a rock. I tried all sorts of stuff, turning the wheel left to right and even pulling a vacuum on the reservoir. No change. So this car has the p/s cooler. I pulled the return line going from the cooler to the pump started the eng. and let some fluid pump out into a drain pan. Next I pulled a vacuum at the p/s cooler return line to see if I could get the air out of the system. After doing all of this and topping off the fluid it seems to be working fine, you can turn the wheel with one finger like before. So there had to be a big air pocket stuck in there someplace. My thing is I've never seen this procedure for air bleeding the system done anywhere. ( and believe me I googled everything on the subject ). Just wondering if anyone has ever had this problem before or was it just a fluke. This thing drove me crazy for a couple of days.