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Broke down side of road quick question

gtscode

gtscode

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Power steering return line burst luckily while getting gas.

No replacement at local napa.

If I take the belt of the power steering pump and drive home will I damage the control valve?

Still have 200 miles to go.

Thanks!!
 
I drove my 66 one time for almost 200 miles without the pump running. The control valve lasted form many years after that. Not sure if have PS Fluid would make a difference.
 
I don't think so . :confu

You have alot of highway mls ahead.
Just cut the belt .
Notice : you gonna have a little more play steering wise. :steer :steer
 
"gtscode" said:
Power steering return line burst luckily while getting gas.

No replacement at local napa.

If I take the belt of the power steering pump and drive home will I damage the control valve?

Still have 200 miles to go.

Thanks!!
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Let me know if there is anything I can get for you in the Bay Justin. If your on THE 5 I will be heading down south leaving the Bay in two hours.
 
The return line burst? That is a low pressure line. You might be able to splice in a repair section with a some barb couplings and hose clamps and get home on that fix...if it is the return side and not the pressure hose.
 
"Horseplay" said:
The return line burst? That is a low pressure line. You might be able to splice in a repair section with a some barb couplings and hose clamps and get home on that fix...if it is the return side and not the pressure hose.
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Heck yeah - exactly what Horse said.
 
Just passed GTSCODE. Seems to be doing just fine.

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Removed the belt drove to a Napa. The guy was a jerk looking at me like some city slicker.

I took the hose off and paid a guy a block away $5.00 to borrow his hacksaw and cut the crimp connector down the length of it and removed the line.

I then just bot a longer 3/8" hose and connected it up. Luckily I had my tools but it still took me a couple hours to get it all done. Getting the old hose off was a bitch! Bought the last bottle of type f fluid they had in the back in a dusty bottle and am almost home.

The leak was right at the crimp connector so I couldn't splice the hose.

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I just noticed that the local Kragen sells a one piece line that replaces both the upper and lower return lines.

This is essentially what I have now done with my fix. Do I really need to replace the fixed line? Seems to me this works just fine.

I could order a lower return line from NPD.
 
"gtscode" said:
I just noticed that the local Kragen sells a one piece line that replaces both the upper and lower return lines.

This is essentially what I have now done with my fix. Do I really need to replace the fixed line? Seems to me this works just fine.

I could order a lower return line from NPD.
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So this is indeed how the new lines are done. I see no reason to replace this fix so I am calling this done!
 
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