Power Steering Leak

[c5greener]

I'm loosing power steering oil - I have read some posts on here, and suspected the oil was leaking from the seal where the steering column enters the rack; sure enough the shaft was extremely corroded as mentioned in the posts, but there where no signs of oil leakage. I eventually traced the leak to a hole in the steel pipe where the mounting bracket connects to the power steering fluid - cooling radiator, attached in front of the coolant rad at the front of the car. This maybe useful if anyone has a similar problem. I took the opportunity to clean up the corroded steering column and hopefully prevent this from damaging the seal. This can be accessed through the large rubber bung in the drivers foot well - First remove the steering column plastic cover (top left hand side of the foot well - this will just lift away after releasing the two plastic hand turn-screws just higher on the cover. The steering column retaining bolt can now be undone, remove this and slide the column up and out of the way, then remove the two  rubber bung retaining nuts and lift the bung up and out. The short spigot coming from the rack can now be cleaned up (a bit fiddly, but much easier than trying to work from underneath - if you haven't got an airline clean away any bits of rust which have dropped into the groove around the seal by using some small bore flexible tube and blowing down it whilst directing the end at the seal)  With this all cleaned up, I greased the spigot to hopefully prevent any future corrosion. Hopefully this may save someone the cost of a new rack.   

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Thanks for the input greener its always apreciated