I got it because I hoped to clean it up, and make it look like new, then replace the one on my car.
but the one on my car has a different mounting bracket and the lines are routed differently
they were only installed on cars with the performance axle group, and fleet vehicles with heavy duty use, like cop cars, fire dept
above is what they looked like out of the car, below, what they look like mounted to the power steering pump
In all my years (68) I've never seen or heard of a power steering cooler?
ReplyDeletewell, they were not needed on most vehicles, and I'm only familiar with Mopars, so, maybe other car companies didn't use them.
DeleteBut on Mopars, if you had gears that would cause most of the driving to be higher RPM, and in Mopar cars, that was 3.55 and bigger, and most of those are the hi perf 440, and hemi cars.
I never heard of them until I got my R/T in 2002, and I still have it, and cleaning the cooling fins has been on my mind just for a neat little couple hours in the garage project, and, fix the little leak on the steering line from the cooler to the steering gears.
Figuring this would be a nice car guy post for us gear heads who would rather see car parts than news... I dove into this post a bit more than most, showing how they mount to the power steering pumps.
Mopar had these in use from 1968-74, from what I can remember, and they were a bit differently configured if a car was an A body (Dart, Demon, Swinger) or a B Body, (Super Bee, Road Runner, GTX, R/T) the C Body Hurst 300 and Fury GT, or the E Body Barracuda and Challengers. I don't think the Newport, VIP, Monaco, or Polara had them.
You can install an after market one, they have better heat exchangers, and can be mounted in front of the radiator.
These factory hi perf ones were mounted right next to the block, and so, they soaked up heat from the exhaust manifold or headers