I had my car looked at last week....
The guy said my power stearing high pressure line is leaking. How hard is this to replace? How much is the part? Is it a manufacture only part? And how long should this take and does anyone have any pointers/tips/howto's on this? Thanks.

 

Call the parts store and ask them if they have one, and how much it costs.

If they have one, go buy it.

Take it home.

Put a catch pan under the car.

Use a wrench to take off the old one.

Use a wrench to put on the new one.

Start car, and fill resevoir as needed.

Pretty easy.

 

You don't have to bleed the lines or anything like that? i figured since it was hydrolic you would have to.....

 

nope its only under pressure with the pump turning.. i think i paid 30 bucks for mine but that was a few years ago so i could be wrong..

 

just checked autozone....$16...and another $17 for the filter...do I have to change the filter? I didn't even see one on there....

 

ended up paying $40 for it to get it today....
Put it iin....took like 3 hours....
Couldn't get the line out of the back of the pump so I cut it with a dremel and unscrewed the bolt on the back of the pump put it back in nice and tight and put the new line in went in real easy. The person before me replaced it and used teflon tape on the line fittings......
took me like half an hour to get that end out of the bolt....

 

teflon tape in flare fittings alwasy brings a smile to my face. guess it doesn't hurt but it sure doesn't help.

 

when i took the thing off and saw it there....I cursed for about 20 minutes....no wonder i couldn't get the thing off....