Power steering overflows!
Ok, first off I did a search and couldn’t come up with anyone else having this problem.
I will start off by first say yesterday it was in the teens as far as outside temperature goes. I went to start my car and had a squealing belt, this has been there since I have had the cold weather. I was thinking it was just a slightly loose belt but after popping my hood and looking under I am starting to think I have bigger problems.
The power steering reservoir was pushing fluid out from under the cap like a sieve. I probably lost as much fluid as the reservoir can hold. It has already been thru weather this cold before and I never noticed it doing that. I will add there was no difference in driving/steering of the car. Everything seemed to be just fine other then the fact of fluid pushing out of the reservoir.
I’m thinking there maybe some water in the lines causing freezing and then the pump turning on and back pressuring into the reservoir, but I’m not sure.
So I am here to see if anyone else has ever had the same problem and if so what did you do to fix it?