Rack Steering Question......

I drove through an area with some shattered Bamboo and a piece struck and punctured my steering boot on the rack. Sadly, this is now allowing power steering fluid to leak out and I am forced to continue to refill it every couple of days...as well, I cannot park in the driveway due to the staining.

My questions are these:.....

Can the boot be replaced easily or should the entire rack get replaced??
Is this something I should do myself or take it to be done?

Any assistance woud be greatly appreciated!!!

 

It's leaking P/S fluid from the rack??

If so, time for a new P/S Rack.

 

Yes, its leaking from a small hole in the boot caused from a piece of wood/bamboo I hit somewhere along the road.

I checked with a shop here and they say the book can be replaced....somewhere in the area of $110 for parts and labor. I really just wanted to do it myself (if possible) but I might still need to get an alignment when through.

If the rack does need to be replaced, is that a fairly easy job? What does a rack cost?

 

That is just a dust boot. If there is fluid inside, the rack is leaking.

 

Yuppers.

 

no bueno

 

Both of my dust cover boots are torn. I just ordered replacements and the guy at Advanced auto said that there should be a grease pack included.

Anybody have a write up on replacing the boots?

Thanks!

 

No. But here you can download the factory service manual and see what all is involved:

 

the boot is not a seal for stering fluid it just for dust so the problem in not that the boot is broken their is a seal broken inside the boot and that my friend is a job for the shop and a new rack will be way grater than that.

 

HAHAHA... They no comprende.

If your rack boots are leaking fluid you have a bigger problem then leaking boots... As in the power steering rack is leaking into the boots... which means a new rack is needed.

please someone else say in a diffrent way one more time

 

what are 96-04 5 lug racks going for ? im in need of a new one.

 

looked one up on kragens site cheapest is 310. id check out a mini truck salvage yard

 

i rplaced my rack on my 05+ mini and it was 150ish on ebay from an online wrecking yard.......... i did the install my self wasnt to hard. getting the steering straight was the hardest part

 

Dude at advance is trying to sell you cv joint boots. There is no grease in a steering rack boot.