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hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:12 pm
by skater
Had Bongo idling on drive while checking stuff, long enough for coolant temp to get to normal
( 11 o'clock ).
Everything ( touch wood ) fine but the power-steering fluid reservoir was too hot to touch for
more than a few seconds.
Didn't do anything with steering while checking other stuff.
Hopefully this is normal

but surprised me.
Any thoughts?
Re: hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:47 pm
by dandywarhol
Think of having a pee but at a hundred times more pressure - you're pipes would get hot too!
Perfectly normal

Re: hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:20 am
by skater
Thanks, that's ok then.
Nice analogy

Re: hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:19 pm
by mikeonb4c
skater wrote:Thanks, that's ok then.
Nice analogy

Only difference is - if you smell our p/s fluid and it smells sweet, that's good. If you smell you p** fluid and it smells sweet, thats not good

Re: hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:45 pm
by missfixit70
Depends if you'vre been eating sugar puffs

Re: hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:57 pm
by helen&tony
Re: hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:00 pm
by francophile1947
Re: hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:47 am
by skater
I like the way this has gone slightly off topic

Re: hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:09 pm
by francophile1947
skater wrote:I like the way this has gone slightly off topic

Yeah well, the original question was answered and it's a shame to waste the space

Re: hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:16 pm
by mikeonb4c
skater wrote:I like the way this has gone slightly off topic

its a trademark of the Bongo Tribe - long may it thrive
PS - back on thread, I checked my PS fluid recently and found it dark and not sweet smelling. Rather like ATF is supposed to look/smell when it needs changing (and have just changed, although it was in good nick!). Note to self, must attend to PS fluid.
Re: hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:48 pm
by skater
I think mine will be having a complete transfusion soon just so I know
it's all new

Re: hot power-steering fluid
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:03 pm
by helen&tony
Hi
Again ....too much information...When I first "joined Up" I was told to sniff the dipstick on the transmission...Step back...take a look at a Bongo owner fiddling with a footbrake, a gear stick, with the engine running and sniffing a dipstick on a gas station forecourt, and ask yourself what an onlooker might think...."" Önnist...I wuz sniffin for burnt cork"

and you ask if the membership is SANE??????
Cheers
Helen