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Originally Posted by Bruce Wayne
wow !! no one removed a steering rack from a 986 ??
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Bruce,
Before removing the rack, remove the two hydraulic hoses that supply the hydraulic fluid to the rack, these have a fairly small (square type..?) O-ring that most likely (hopefully) is the cause for the leak..
A couple of years ago I removed the entire rack because I was planning to tread the inlet/outlet ports of the rack to install an oil cooler, but a friend of mine with more common sense (and a real mechanic..) recommended against because the walls of the ports of the rack had fairly thin walls and I didn't want to risk it.
I ended cutting off the metal ends from the OEM hoses and welded AN connectors to them, using new OEM O-rings like the original design and so far, four years later (and about 60k miles) I have not got a leak so I cannot complain.
BTW, removing the rack from the car was surprisingly simple..
Good luck!
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