Car Info: 2005 Subaru Outback 3.0 H6 Bone stock 131k miles Woke up this morning to a small leak coming from the power steering reservoir. I didn't know if this was because it was -14 last night and I had to park my car outside due to a house project or if I have a larger issue at hand. I'll try to take a picture later and post it up, but the power steering reservoir has what looks like a 2-part construction with a middle seam where the two parts mate together. It's at that seam that it's leaking. I've never had this before, but once again it was stupid cold outside. I'm guessing the combo of cold and plastic was part of the reason. Is this a known issue? Thanks, Ryan
Spoke with Brian, I think it could be a hose clamp. It's still using the factory "squeeze" style clamps, not the screw-on ones. I'll swap those and see what happens.
Picture 1: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-...AZXM/rUcw0bwZEYk/s512/IMG_20130121_115238.jpg Picture 2: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-...AZXU/oBX6eN_UCmQ/s512/IMG_20130121_115247.jpg
Pic 1 and Pic 2 tell the tale of the top hose, the one that loops over and into the aft part of the reservoir. If that hose was cold shrinking and getting pressurized blow by past the clamp, it would piss fluid onto that flat seam where you see it all the way around the reservoir. That really seem, to me, like how this happened. I would probably get adjustable hose clamps and just give them a quarter turn around December 1st to make sure they're tight.
I had problems the other day with my 05 outback XT and the power steering, but mine was the line into the pump.... My problem was that I was getting air into my systems and it was causing bubbles in the fluid making it over flow the res when I turned the car off. Have not tried to fix it because I found more major problems that need fixing before we worry about power steering.
