Hi guys.

 

Im having a bit of a zed nightmare at the moment, i have a corroded power steering pipe behind the front bumper, i can physically see where the fluid is spraying/leaking from the pipe.

 

I removed the front bumper to get a closer look at the pipe, and its the pipe that runs from the power steering reservoir vertically down the car to the bottom of the bumper, along the bottom of the air con rad and the rest of the rads, then pops up through the other side of the car into the bottom of the engine.

 

I got mike feeney to fax over the layout of the pipe on the car and in order to replace it i need to remove what seems like an additional 2/3rds of the car! the pipe runs from one side of the car to the other inter winding between other pipes.

 

The pipe starts on rubber hose then turns into metal pipe, i wish to replace it with reinforced high pressue hose all the way through, does anyone know if this will be ok?

 

Instead of following the pipe through its original route, (which is not the quickest route for where it goes) I want to pybass it along the crosss member and straight up to the power steering reservoir. - Can anyone see any harm in doing this? and is there any particular reason nissan laid the pipe the way they have?

 

When i had to remove the air con radiator, the two massive nuts on either side that you have 2 release was being so arsy, i got one side off to reveal whoever did it last time corss threaded them, the other side had to be cut because it was shanked, can i just replace it with a bit of hose? the other option is a new air con rad because the pipes are welded on to the rad. arghh!

 

any help/ advice is much apprciated, i feel like giving up! i only found out about the power steering pipe moments after i just spent a day replacing the oil sump which is fiddly enough!

 

thanks

Can't see a problem replacing with high pressure hose,just make sure it's routed away from edges/heat etc!

Pirtek will be your best bet. ;)

Can't see a problem replacing with high pressure hose,just make sure it's routed away from edges/heat etc!

Pirtek will be your best bet. ;)

 

 

cheers mate, appreciate the advice. Ill give them a try.

 

Whilst ive got all the radiators out is there anything worth changing whilst i have access to all the belts, i was going to change my fan belt, Is the crankseal hard to change? cambelt was done 20k ago so going to leave that.

 

Im doin a general service and if theres any other parts down there that are prown to fail i wanna replace them, ne1 suggest changing anything?

 

cheers for the help guys, appreciated as always.