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Hi,

Ive done the searches and found quite a few posts with the same problem. responses vary from just keep topping it up to get a power steering reconditioning. The leak i have is very small (no idea where its coming from), and as i dont know what kind of powersteering fluid an R33 GTST takes i was thinking about putting dogey 'stop leak' through the system.

Anyway i will wait to see what the brainstrust think.

Thanks !

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find out where its leaking first. putting a stop leak is just masking the problem. fix it properly

mine was leaking at the hose on the reservoir, it was just a simple tight up and top up. cant remember what fluid exactly, dotsomething but a quick search should answer that question.

My leak was in the hose - it had a number of blisters so it would have been a waste of time to do anything but replace it. In an R32GTR it was a real bitch of a job to get it out as the rubber bit and the hard pipe were all the one piece and the hard section was wrapped around crossmember etc. Yours should be easier. Anyways i took it to enzed and they made it new again.

Get of your butt and find the leak. Only then can you decide how to fix it. I cant imagine the stop leak would be effective...

My leak was in the hose - it had a number of blisters so it would have been a waste of time to do anything but replace it. In an R32GTR it was a real bitch of a job to get it out as the rubber bit and the hard pipe were all the one piece and the hard section was wrapped around crossmember etc. Yours should be easier. Anyways i took it to enzed and they made it new again.

Get of your butt and find the leak. Only then can you decide how to fix it. I cant imagine the stop leak would be effective...

yeah fair call,

what did enzed charge you?

thanks for the input, much appreciated

just buy a packet of extra and chew on it for a bit then slap it on where the leak is. works everytime :(

i just ran out and checked mine, i got a few blisters too (time for some preventative maintenance) on the hose. try looking at that first, or your union into the resovoir.

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