LHD power steering pipes

[oorwullie]

i'm just wondering whether yours well really fecked and rusty ready to disintigrate all the way from front to back.

i'd been driving with the Vbelt off the pump for a year or more till recently when i had to get the bus MOT'd here so i cut the old hard lines behind the fuel tank and got a local tractor garage to make me up some flexi lines with the relevant fittings.

mine were like new apart from where they wiggle up towards the engine...........

[California Dreamin]

I agree mate...on the whole they were in reasonably nick apart from the 1.5 - 2 metre section just forwards of the rear axle to where they go up into the engine bay.

Problem is one is high pressure so would need a large inline coupling making up and the low pressure (larger pipe) would still need some sort of flare and specialised piping, very difficult to achieve in situe without proper tools and connections .
I've a main Pirtek dealer a mile down the road from me but they would have needed the old pipes as pattern and that just wasn't going to happen.
I suppose I could have used a bit of string to measure their length and just cut off the unions to re-use them but it was all getting too much hassle to save £50.00.

Martin