When the cold weather months come in and not uncommon to find your Power steering pump a bit more noisy than it was during the warmer months. As your engine and components go through countless heat cycles rubber begins to deteriorate and shrink, clamps that were once tight loosen up. Many of these issues can attribute to noisiness, lack of power steering, leaks and etc.

Let’s take a look at a couple of the easiest to access and remedies that we can easily do. This is also a great time to replace your power steering fluid.

Time frame

If you are just replacing the o-ring this is a very straight forward fix that shouldn’t take ore than 15 mins. Add a bit of time if you need to refill or clean up power steering fluid. The suction hose won’t take much longer but has a much higher possibility of spilling.

Tools

A few choice tools can get both of these jobs completed swiftly and with ease.

For the o-ring a socket and socket wrench, this will dispatch the bolt and allow for o-ring replacement.

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