I had to replace my high pressure powersteering line a week ago...Everything went fine. But after a few days, the bolt on the driverside came loose a little bit and started leaking. Its really tough sticking a line wrench from the top and tightening it. I got underneath and pushed it up to tighten it, but now i can't put the line wrench on at a lower angle to tighten it further. I have a regular 18mm wrench my dad cut in half for me...I was able to atleast come from the top and pull up a little to tighten more...but im not that confident it won't get pushed out again and start leaking.

I was thinking about maybe holding the wrench on and have someone pry up on it with a rod against something solid... Or even a little teflon tape near the top of the bolt threads.

What have other people done?

 

I was successful, i needed a second pair of hands. I'm not sure if a crowfoot socket setup would work, unless you had an extremely long extender shaft. He had to hold the linewrench from below while I laid ontop of the engine and reached down to get it onto the bolt properly. For some reason, the replacement high pressure line I got from NAPA seems too long. As in, the metal tube part of the line went across the cradle and actually rested on my passenger cv boot. After everything was in, I had to push up on the line to bend it a little, to give it little clearance over the half shaft/boot. I also tyewrapped the top of the flexible rubber hose, its located behind the heater core hoses, so I secured it to a bracket to add a little tug upwards as well. I'm not sure why this happened, its supposedly OEM fit. Both powersteering lines are clipped into the plastic retainers at both points on the cradle. Next weekend i'm going to remove the tyewraps off the flexible portion and redo them somewhere down by the cradle area where it was tyewrapped in production. Im not sure where it was originally, my uncle clipped it off before I even had a chance to look. I had my uncle turn the wheels lock to lock to observe how the line flexes...I swear it gets even closer to the boot then. I should upload some pictures so people can see what Im talking about (Maybe I shouldnt bother since no one is going to respond anyway, lol). Is there a tech guide for this? I went through 8 pages of the guide forum but didn't see it.


EJ