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Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:25 pm

What do you guys do when the power steering lines need replacing due to rust? Are they available new?

Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:08 am

Here is the best replacement going.
http://members.aol.com/fkc43/hose.htm

Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:23 am

Don't know about the price of copper over there, but a cheap and very robust solution is to use 10mm copper waterpipe for the pressure and 12mm copper pipe for the return. Pipe can be bought in a bendy version covered in plastic for protection and is very easy to work with a pipe cutter. Ordinary compression fittings from a plumber. Cut the old steel pipe about 6 inches away from the steering rack for the pressure, and 8 inches away for the return so that your fittings don't collide when you attach them, and do the same at the back cutting the steel pipes a few inches after the hose connections. The pipes here aren't usually rusty and it's useful to save their flanged ends. If you have a syncro the job is dead easy as you don't have to manoever the pipes around a fuel tank. Run the new pipes from the pump connections down past the inner bushing for the trailing arm and along the longitudinal beam on the right hand side, cut the old ones away. Use strips to hold pipes firm. If you don't have a syncro, either reroute the new pipes in the well on top of the fuel tank, or, as I've done, run them along the longitudinal beam and the up and around the inside of the right wheel arch in a nice curve which goes from the jacking beam up and over the top of the wishbone (mind the brake hose) before going inwards to the steering rack. You won't get the old pipes out from behind the fuel tank because of the bends, just cut them off at each side and strips them so they don't rattle and leave them there.

Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:41 am

This has been covered
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=244001&highlight=steering