Will, A couple of thoughts; Squealing can be caused by slipping belts. They in turn will easily slip when lubricated with power steering fluid. Leaking hoses can almost always be replaced by a hydraulic hose shop. My local NAPA store does it, someone near you does to. The leaking fluid should make it easy to remove the flare nuts and get the hoses out. I would drain all the fluid you can and pull the hoses and pump. Have the hoses replaced by the hydraulic shop, they will install new ones on the original hardware. Examine the pump to see if it's seals are leaking and if it appears to be binding. If not, I would clean it up and put it back in service. If so, others will know about repairing it. I would not hesitate to spend $300 with IAP. More because you will need a new belt also. Reinstall everything and then flush fluid through the rack. To flush the rack, secure the reservoir end of the return line into a bucket. You need to be able to very quickly add a lot of fluid to that reservoir while a helper turns lock to lock and back again. Have that helper start the engine and slowly turn the steering wheel. It wont take long and you will see fresh, clean fluid coming through. Reattach the return line to the reservoir and top up the fluid and you should be ready to go. Figure on using a gallon of fluid. Scott Shure85 GTV-6Baltimore, MD
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:03:03 -0800 From: Will Owen Subject: [alfa] Squealing Milano PS pump ... or at least that appears to be the source of the racket. I imagine I can do the old steel-rod-on-casing trick to make sure. IAP wants just shy of $300 for one, I'm assuming with mine to cover the core charge - that's what my last year's catalog says, but the website just gives the $298 price and says "Call for availability". That does not sound like an unreasonable price, though I'm wondering what sourcing one locally would run; I'm sure that there are people here in the LA area that do this sort of thing, and I need some oozing hoses taken care of too. The car is used so seldom at the moment that a long-term layup would be no hardship. I'm gonna post this on the AlfaBB too, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask as many people as possible. I also still need to address the non-functioning driver's window; in this land of one damn ticketed parking lot after another, that's almost a better reason not to drive the car than anything else. My thanks to any of the brethren and sistren who have advice to pass along. Will Owen '87 Milano Gold '91 164S That Subaru ... ------------------------------ End of alfa-digest V10 #2534 **************************** -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
