Originally Posted By: Danh
As an alternative, how about trying something like Valvoline MaxLife power steering fluid? If your leaky seal is just old and brittle rather than damaged, this could slow or eliminate the problem. Worth a try compared to $ 750.
It did not work
initially on mine when I first put it in (almost a year, and 8K miles ago), but it seems to have stopped leaking altogether now.
I don't know if it was the seal swellers in the Max Life, or if it is the recent cold weather overly thickening the fluid, or BOTH, but it is not losing any over time now.
My 180K+,
MUCH abused (autocrosses/open tracking on very sticky tires, daily driven hard in ALL weather conditions on BAD roads) steering rack, which owes me NOTHING, (despite all of the very easily driven Camry owners who will come on here to say it does owe me something since they got > 500K miles out of theirs on hard all seasons- LOL) needs to be replaced anyway come spring since it just feels 'loose' now.
I just wish that someone made a quicker ratio, aftermarket steering rack for these cars, so I could do a performance upgrade at the same time, and get an even quicker yet 'turn-in' response.