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Is it worth putting a power steer cooler/radiator type thingie on my power steering setup? I thought I could get one from some auto gearbox and mount it somewhere to lessen the heat buildup in the system. Would also increase capacity. Is this a waste of time?

No its a good idea, as when I ran my first set of Q78's I would boil the oil in my power stearing. After puting a cooler on, all was OK .
Now I run Hydro assist it is good for cooling and capacity.

Cheezy4x4 wrote:No its a good idea, as when I ran my first set of Q78's I would boil the oil in my power stearing. After puting a cooler on, all was OK .
Now I run Hydro assist it is good for cooling and capacity.

But no good for the hip pocket!

During daily driving there's no problems but when I'm going slow off road, I have to start fighting the wheel and the power steering system lets me know that it's in pain.

I'll have a look around the wreaker's tomorrow.

Would the auto cooler be the way to go. From what I have seen most of these are fairly small but should I source a larger one?

Where should it be plumbed into? Between the resivoir (sp?) and pump, pump and box or box and resi?

It should be fitted to the return side of the PS

Would a small one make any difference or does it have to me massive?

Thanks CJer - just before the resi sounds good.

Even a small one will make a difference but if you have the room and can pick up a larger one it wont hurt.

sort of OT but not really. What would I need to put power steering on my Zuk. It has a Toyota 5k engine but everything else is Suzuki

Bee Bee i have a small fuel tank (i got from Sam) that i am going to use to increase my capacity.

ps he has heaps of them. just chucks them in the bin

Niiiiice!

Sam..........