Power Steering pressure line busted on the AC compressor.

I have a 2002 Toyota Tacoma SR5 4x4 v6 Dbl Cab and driving yesterday I could smell a weird smell. So I pulled into a perking lot and popped the hood. The pressure line was rubbing against the ac compressor and it put a hole in the pressure line and of course the fluid was spraying everywhere. So my errand trip was cut short and home I went. I bought this truck in April and have done a lot of work to it to bring it up to very good working order. Tune up, timing belt, water pump. thermostat, fuel filter, plugs, wires oil and diff changes etc,,, all by reading the great posts here on how to doo all of that, would have probably been lost without all the great advice that is on here. So my question is how hard is it to change the pressure line on the power steering? I have done a lot of work on different vechicles over the years, but I have never had to do a power steering pressure line. Any advice or tricks or what to look out for would be greatly appreciated. I live in Canada so I doubt the price of the hose is going to be cheap, but I am sure I can find one somewhere. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

I had luck with my ford when the power steering line also had a rub through. Took a tight fitting fuel line hose and hose clamped it after cutting the line at the rub.

 

Unbolt the line put the new one on

Line wrenches are nice if you have them

Refill the power steering reservoir

Bleed the system by turning the wheel full right and full left. several times

Top off fluid if needed

Hope you did not burn the pump up if you drove it far with no fluid !!

 

After someone revives you with smelling salts over a dealer quote on the hose (I'm guessing here, but.........) check with hydraulic hose shops in your area. I've taken both broken AC and PS hoses to them, and they've used them as a template to make me a new hose for much less than an OTC piece. Sometimes they can even reuse your fittings, or even splice a coupler in the area of your damage.

Depending on how the hose is attached, it's possible a crow's foot could be needed, especially on the box end of things. A flare wrench would be useful to lower damage risk if you can get to it with one.

As far as the actual install/fill/bleed process, Wyoming09 gave you that. Not much to it.

 

I appreciate all the feed back! thank you very much. I have some friends that work in the Hydraulic world, so I think I will try to get the assembly off and take it to one of them and see what they can do. Hopefully I can get it all off without to much trouble. Again thanks for the advice! I think I will need a trip to a hardware store to get the proper wrenches to get the line off the power steering rack.

 

Of course you need to move the line a slight bit so it no longer rubs

Also a layer of old hose to help protect the line can`t hurt

Looking up real quick on Napa for my 2000 3.4 the pressure hose is around $135.00

Might be different in other regions.