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I have a 95 mazda protege. In the process of doing another repair I needed to remove the power steering rack. After putting it back in and starting the car up I found power steering leaks in two areas.
The connection between this line from the p/s motor
Connecting to the feed line to the p/s rack
And this connection
That connects to the top of the p/s rack
Which is the connection marked here
My first thought was that there must be a problem with the o-ring, but I don’t see any place for there to be an o-ring. Didn’t take one off during removal.
I’ve torqued both connections to hell and they’re still leaking.
I’m out of ideas on what to do next so I’m seeking help.
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Over-tightening or cross-threadding may be the issue. I’d recheck your connections to make sure it’s not one of those.
Good luck and keep us posted.
All the threads appear to be in good shape. I tried reconnecting with less torque and found that it slowed both leaks to a steady drip from the solid stream it was going at before, but still leaking.
I think that these flair connections form the seal through the compression of the double sided flair and not through the closing of the threads, so I can probably rule out problems with the threads being messed up.
If not cross threaded then the threads are probably super rusty. They are where salty water gets splashed around if you live where winter occurs. But, yeah, I think that vehicle has compression fittings. Maybe some love given to the threads would help.
The fittings are brass, if you can’t tell from the picture. No rust here. Since two people have said something is wrong with threads I’ll at least pursue it. Could you define ‘love’?
No, I didn’t see that they were brass. So brass compression fittings, the threads are good, they sealed before and now they don’t. Something is missing from this picture. Any chance of dirt or particles in the sealing area?
I sorted this issue out a while ago and I thought I’d come back and give a rundown of what was going on.
In the process of removing the power steering gear I had to undo the connection marked on this picture.
You don’t necessarily have to undo this connection but in my case I did because the line it’s connected to was caught on something.
After removing the power steering gear I found a small brass fitting on the floor and I didn’t see where it came from, pictured hereWell, to make a long story short, that brass fitting goes on the connection in the first picture. Each connection that goes directly into the p/s gear has a brass fitting like that. My problem was that I put the brass fitting between this
and this
which resulted in a leak there as well as a leak here
Once I put that fitting in the right place all of my problems were solved
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