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Steering fluid leak. Zafira A '04 1.6

smuggler.ie · 2019-11-03 17:06:20

She said: "I noticed, sometime, hard to do a U-turn like for a week or so and even worse tonight, could you have a look whats wrong...?" Reservoir level down, and not even sure if any fluid left there. Whining noise on steep turn, just by the end of maneuver and same on the way back, straightening wheels. After cleaning…

03-11-2019 5:06pm

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She said: "I noticed, sometime, hard to do a U-turn like for a week or so and even worse tonight, could you have a look whats wrong...?"

Reservoir level down, and not even sure if any fluid left there. Whining noise on steep turn, just by the end of maneuver and same on the way back, straightening wheels.

After cleaning under-body, badly oiled, it appear coming from input shaft area and dripping onto steering rack boot on driver side and down.

Anyone with experience what is involved to replace seals, if worth it. It looks like whole rack will need to come out to access it and much more before i even get to that point.

For starter will go shopping for steering leak sealer and see if can get away with that.

Advice/recommendations welcome.

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