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Re: boiling powersteering fluid on neon

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Subject: Re: boiling powersteering fluid on neon
From: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:43:38 -0500

MAXG4CES@cs.com wrote:

>            I had a funny thing happen to me at our last club event last
> weekend.At the end of ,I'd say , my sixth autocross run, my power steering
> fluid was just boiling over and splashing out of the fluid reservoir.It
> didn't seem to affect the car's performance,but I was wondering what may have
> caused it and if any other neon drivers had experienced this.

>From what I understand, most Neons experience this under heavy autocross
use.  The cause:  poor design? (opened myself right up to a good
old-fashioned Mike B. style flame job there, didn't I?)  I have heard
that synthetic PS fluid helps.



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