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Today i fitted a Davies Craig Power Steering Cooler (part #1009) into my VT commodore, as the stock cooling pipe had corroded and was spraying PS fluid absolutely everywhere.. took a few photos while doing it just incase any of you have a similar issue, or feel like installing a cooler to your cars (should be applicable to many makes and models)

Firstly, here is what comes in the kit:
1x Power steering cooler
1x length of hose
4x Hose clamps
4x Through the radiator nylon mounts (didnt use them)
1x Piece of flared pipe with a nut on it (didnt use it)

Additionally, you will need 2 hydraulic hose joiners.



Remove front bar and expose the stock power steering cooler pipe which looks like this


Remove the pipe by undoing the 2 screws on the central mounting bracket, then move on to the bolt thats mounting it to the car body on the left hand side of the radiator. Be patient with this one because its in a bastard of a spot and takes a little while.
After all these screws are removed, move to the rear and remove the 2 hoses that are attached to the cooler pipe. Power steering fluid will go everywhere.

Once the above steps are completed and the pipe is removed, you should end up with something that looks like this.. Throw it as far away as possible.

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Next, you will need to cut in half the piece of supplied hose.
Moving back to those leaky hoses at the rear (up under the wheel arch), using the 2 hose joiners and 2 extra hose clamps join the 2 pieces of supplied hose to the existing outlets.
Once completed it should look something like this:


Moving back up front, the 2 hoses hanging out the front now need to be connected to the cooler.

Mocking up where the cooler is to be mounted (i used the original mounting straps for the stock unit as opposed to using the through-radiator nylon fittings), cut the hose to length and slide of over the fitting on the cooler itself.
Tighten the hose clamps and you're ready to mount the cooler.
Using Zip ties (is there anything they CANT do?), i mounted the cooler a little below where the stock one was situated, leaving it in direct air flow from the opening in the front bumper

Put the front bar back on and you're all done.
Allow about 2 hours as getting to some of the bolts and getting the hoses off can be a bit of a pain.

All thats left to do now is top up the PS fluid, run the car and turn the wheel slowly from lock to lock. The fluid will drain out of the reservoir into the hoses and whatnot and this step will need to be repeated a couple of times to get the levels where they should be.

Hope this could be of some help to some of you

cheers,
Adam

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