Any ideas, what that fluid is?.. It didn't really have much of a smell, yet I'm not really sure what the certain unit I'm looking at is in the first place.





It's located above the front sway-bar on the drivers side, yet the tranny appears fine to me. It is leaking something, unless thats a relief for something, under something and/or I'm over analyzing the problem.

 

other items to consider, brake fluid, clutch fluid (if applicable), or power steering fluid, all those things are around/have connections on the drivers side that could leak onto the sway bar and that general area, for the most part.

 

what color is it and how does it feel on your fingers?
on that side there would be two hoses for coolant, fuel filter, IIRC....
the picture looks like the power steering rack or half shaft??

 

Could it be grease slung out from a torn CV boot? Kinda hard to tell the exact location from the pics.

Dave

 

Grease will be light green to grey. PS will be brown on your hands and smell like burnt popcorn.

Is that a power steering rack boot?

Those pictures are abysmal.

 

Yeah I talked with Mike and I think we narrowed it down to PS fluid.. It's brownish with a bit of a red hue and really doesn't have much of a smell. Which is what happens to ATF (PS on our cars) after it's been used for a bit.

All resevoirs are full however.. Also, I do have 2 torn CV's on both sides, I'm too lazy to put the raxles in yet. But keep in mind that is the steering rack boot and for grease to get all the way over to that and onto the shift rod would be defying physics at best.

 

get in there with flash light and look around for a potential source. If one cant be found, clean the entire area and keep an eye on it to see where the fluid begins to accumulate from.

Change those axles already. . . it takes 1hr, plus I'm sure its pretty warm down there so, you cant use cold as an excuse.

 

I thought that but I wasn't gonna say it.....

 

Dude, what do you mean its NOT cold.. It's freezing, I mean 75 fawkin degrees!!


- Thanks for the advice.

 

change those axles lazy...

 

You're in FL !!! Get out there and change your axles. I wish I could work on my car up here. It suc*s

 

I hate you all, you too matty.. Boost panzy.

 

It looks to me like tranny oil. Let us pretend to rule out clutch/brake fluid for those things are very corrosive and would probably discolor some area of that part by now. If it is power steering fluid you can probably tell because the resevoir will be low since it doesn't take much to fill it. That leaves the engine oil, axle grease, and tranny oil (I am going on logical deductions here). We can probably eliminate engine oil since the engine is on the passenger side. The axle is possible, but like you said it is near impossible of it to reach the shift rod and and the steering boot. The tranny is right in front of that area. If there is any tranny oil leak it would most definately splatter to the area in question provided that your car is moving fast enough on the highway. I would check the tranny for any signs of oil/dirt sticking to a particular area (a sign of oil running down the side or that sensor/switch down there). Let me know what you find.

 

quit whinning and buy one of his kits . . .

 

ATF (aka power steering fluid) fits that description. I think he has two seperate leaks though. One at the steering rack, and one at the control rod seal.

 

Thanks guys, I'm going to grow through some logical deductions to figure out what exactly it may be. Again good advice..

 

Get 1.50 in quarters take the thing to the car wash and blast that area realy good, then wash it front the top down. After that you should be able to see either the boots, for the rack or the boots for the half shafts leaking. You should drive it a little and look at the area again. My best quess is the stearing rack is leaking.

 

Yeah my father and I were talking and I told him about the loacations of certain things and had a neighbor help as well and we all pretty much rested ont he fact that its odorless ATF down there (aka. PS fluid). So I agree, I believe the steering rack is leaking as well.

 

Has to be the rack. The pump is on the drivers side on the back sie bottom of the engine.

 

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I'd say steering rack.

 

Don't worry you all of them.. You said it was the damn steering rack like an hour before I posted the thread haha.