Power steering reservoir leaking

[loki_racer]

Wanted to get some thoughts on what to do about my leaking power steering reservoir. It has started leaking from the return line. It's not the actual line leaking, but where the line mounts to the reservoir wiggles enough that it can leak almost all the fluid down to that spot in one road trip, or sitting in my driveway overnight. I can't have any leaks to ship the XJ, so I have to resolve this, and don't really want to pull the reservoir. Epoxy?

 

[Ghost]

Wanted to get some thoughts on what to do about my leaking power steering reservoir. It has started leaking from the return line. It's not the actual line leaking, but where the line mounts to the reservoir wiggles enough that it can leak almost all the fluid down to that spot in one road trip, or sitting in my driveway overnight. I can't have any leaks to ship the XJ, so I have to resolve this, and don't really want to pull the reservoir. Epoxy?

Is it the reservoir that mounts to the pump? Has a small nipple sticking out that the line goes on? If so its one of two things. A cracked resivior. Replace the whole thing. Or the o ring between the resivoir and the pump is bad. I will assume you haev a clamp and its tight.

 

[loki_racer]

Is it the reservoir that mounts to the pump? Has a small nipple sticking out that the line goes on? If so its one of two things. A cracked resivior. Replace the whole thing. Or the o ring between the resivoir and the pump is bad. I will assume you haev a clamp and its tight.

Yes it's the reservoir that mounts to the pump. Yes the clamp is tight. I can wiggle the nipple and see fluid leak out. Can the oring be replaced?

 

[Ghost]

Yes it's the reservoir that mounts to the pump. Yes the clamp is tight. I can wiggle the nipple and see fluid leak out. Can the oring be replaced?

The o ring is between the pump and the tank. You will need to get a new tank IMHO. I broke that damn nipple off at the crawl last year. You can get that tank at Advanced. $26.99

http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/we...ons_20710346-P_2137_R|GRP60016_1313918150____

The whole assembly is only about $70.