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Banana S · 12-11-2008, 09:35 PM

Thanks, Ed.

I haven't "dug in" to the power steering assembly on my car yet (I just bought the car in October, and it's tucked away for the cold Indiana winter at the moment), but I really like driving on the Putnam Park Road course here, and I want to "track-proof" the car reasonably well before I head out there in the spring. I'll take a look at the red plastic clip and see how a metal bracket like you mentioned might fit. I'm also pondering the possibility of fabricating a metal clip to take the place of the plastic clip entirely. Anybody have pics of the red clip (melted or not) that they'd like to share with the group?

I've added a transmission cooler to one of my prior cars before, so I'm pretty confident that if I can find a proper-sized cooler unit, I'll be able to install it. (There's not much to it, really...) There are lots of standard coolers in various shapes and sizes out there... Anybody know offhand what the ID/OD of the power steering hard lines near the steering rack are? I'm thinking something like this might work just fine:

http://www.jegs.com/p/Derale/961939/10002/-1

(Hard to beat for $29.99 anyway, plus the cost of the -AN lines...)

12-11-2008, 09:35 PM	#10
Banana S Registered User Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Indiana Posts: 179	Thanks, Ed. I haven't "dug in" to the power steering assembly on my car yet (I just bought the car in October, and it's tucked away for the cold Indiana winter at the moment), but I really like driving on the Putnam Park Road course here, and I want to "track-proof" the car reasonably well before I head out there in the spring. I'll take a look at the red plastic clip and see how a metal bracket like you mentioned might fit. I'm also pondering the possibility of fabricating a metal clip to take the place of the plastic clip entirely. Anybody have pics of the red clip (melted or not) that they'd like to share with the group? I've added a transmission cooler to one of my prior cars before, so I'm pretty confident that if I can find a proper-sized cooler unit, I'll be able to install it. (There's not much to it, really...) There are lots of standard coolers in various shapes and sizes out there... Anybody know offhand what the ID/OD of the power steering hard lines near the steering rack are? I'm thinking something like this might work just fine: http://www.jegs.com/p/Derale/961939/10002/-1 (Hard to beat for $29.99 anyway, plus the cost of the -AN lines...)