Power steering oil cooler leaking.

[bnwa]

Hello to all

Cayenne S 2008, 200k km

From the drivers side wheell well, i have been able to spot a cracked "kink" on the botom pipe of the Power Steering radiator, I beleive? a previous repair might have bent the pipe and caused this crack to become a problem. I see CHF 202 oozing one drop/sec... need to fix.

Anyone with pointers to go about this? Here are some of my interogations

- How much of a pain is removing the radiator?

- Once on my bench I could repair it, I have all it take to repair Alu tubing, although I've never done this on oil carrying vesels, so will this hold our should I spit $$ on a new radiator?

- Recomendation on hose clamping to reconnect all after, my experience with garden hose "aligator clamp" tells me to run from this option.

Thank you for you time

[JFP in PA]

Hello to all

Cayenne S 2008, 200k km

From the drivers side wheell well, i have been able to spot a cracked "kink" on the botom pipe of the Power Steering radiator, I beleive? a previous repair might have bent the pipe and caused this crack to become a problem. I see CHF 202 oozing one drop/sec... need to fix.

Anyone with pointers to go about this? Here are some of my interogations

- How much of a pain is removing the radiator?

- Once on my bench I could repair it, I have all it take to repair Alu tubing, although I've never done this on oil carrying vesels, so will this hold our should I spit $$ on a new radiator?

- Recomendation on hose clamping to reconnect all after, my experience with garden hose "aligator clamp" tells me to run from this option.

Thank you for you time

 

Welcome to RennTech :welcome:

 

The cooler is a $200 part at retail (95534706903, item #12 below), which makes fixing it economically questionable as you are going to need to get it out of the car to do so, and most of the cost in getting at it in the shop is labor.

 

 

Porsche uses their own style clamps on these lines, which I do not believe they sell separately from the hoses.