power steering stop leak?

Vega...They are, in the junkyard, over by the Yugos, arent they??:

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hls
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I have had great luck on the road, much of it driving used cars and van, but I'm getting old, and getting more worried my time will come. First time i bought AAA.

I got a 95 olds 88 which now has steering stop lead added. I hear the rack is expensive.

Greg

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gregz

my 2001 2.2 cavalier gets 33-34 on the highway averaging 65 mph. About 24 heavy city driving, where my Dakota got 12 . I bought my car wreaked. Right, I picked it out with front end bashed in. The guy rebuild cars, mostly cavaliers. Looked pretty good when i got delivery. Been driving it for 6 years, paid $5k.

Greg

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gregz

My wife has one, it's a neat car. I won't work on it, but it's still nicely built and nicely designed and everything uses torx fittings.

GM is starting to clean up their act as far as design reliability goes, mostly because they don't have any choice.

--scott

Reply to
Scott Dorsey

It can be a smart move to buy a used car, or even a damaged car. You have to know who put it back together, and whether they were respectable.

I have bought them, and MOST of them were a bargain.

Reply to
hls

You're just NOW noticing? Have you ever once deemed anything he "contributed" as helpful or in any manner worth- while? And his continual droning that Obama (as good a friend as Wall Street could ever pray for) is a socialist, is simply too risible for words, and a glaringly conspicuous first clue of his abject incapability at any kind of assessment.

Reply to
Stu

Different strokes is right. My favorite cars have been Fiats and VWs. My only explanation is that Subarooers just ain't car folks.

Reply to
dsi1

You miss out on the fun of explaining to the guys in the biker gang who stopped to help just why you're riding a '54 Moto Guzzi in the first place. "My dong has more displacement than that thing," says one of them.

--scott

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Scott Dorsey

You are entitled to your opinion, but little else.

Reply to
hls

As is anyone, but what you are NOT entitled to is your own ridiculously false facts.

Reply to
Stu

hls is one of those uniquely "gifted" individuals who can't differentiate fact from opinion. that his opinions are so astonishingly and persistently underinformed [you can't beat information into him with

2' of lead pipe] is merely icing on the cake.
Reply to
jim beam

And you wouldnt know the difference. Just STFU and go back under the porch.

Reply to
hls

More opinion with an again total absence of basis but superciliously and pretentiously presented as meaningful.

What an incredibly witty rejoinder. Come up with that pathetically feeble attempt at an insult all by yourself?

Reply to
Stu

No, there is no problem using that stuff. The stop leak type just has some extra solvents in it that will soften and swell the rubber seals and hopefully make them stop leaking. One thing you do not want to do is flush all the old fluid out since it has built up a nice supply of very fine but harmless particles that very possibly will help seal leaks. Also, do NOT use any synthetic PS fluid. There is a good chance it will make the leak worse. I did both those mistakes and turned a small leak into a big one.

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Ashton Crusher

this is a common but completely erroneous myth. the only "particles" than can slow leaks are things like walnut shell powder in radiators - and that's because they swell in position after they're added. the particles in power steering systems, engines or anything else of that nature, are non-swelling and have no more ability to seal leaks than sand does to retain water in your kids sandcastle moat.

again, this is simply myth.

no, your leak simply got bigger because it was going to happen anyway. the only way to seal a leak is to fix the thing that's /letting/ it leak. all the magic spells and potions people sell, and all the witchcraft people cite, is just the crap that fills the gap between what people know [i.e. "it's leaking"] and what they /need/ to know [i.e. "why"].

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jim beam

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