Lovely.... If that is the case... I guess off to the junk yard it goes....
Does the seal go instantly like that? It never leaked a drop before.

Thanks for the link with the hose... if it is indeed the hose, I will replace, then sell the car.... if not- I will probably sell the car to the crusher.

Thanks again!

No, it'll go to my hands. I'll fly there and drive it on back... after I fix it of course.

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Thanks for the replies..... If I do not have the worst luck sometimes....

As one of my co-workers says.... "OH JOY". Seems like it is leaking from the steering box (at least according to my father). He knows alot more about cars than I do (in some cases), but I am still unsure. Really, I was too lazy to crawl under there and get dirty.

He said he saw the fluid leaking down from a "pitman arm" too? He may just be telling me that, because he has been wanting me to sell the car anyway. I guess the next thing I should do is remove/cut the PS belt and drive it to my mechanics to see what he says it is and how $ to fix it? Would it be safe to drive like this? The steering is stiff, but it is mostly 4-lane highway, straight, from my house to my mechanics, about 3 miles from here. I just do not know if fluid is leaking down on hot exhaust or not.

If its the hose, I will fix it before I sell it.... if not, then I guess its.... I was really only wanting to sell this car so I could take that money and have the 90K mile service done to my truck (with 102,200). - which is the timing belt/water pump replacement. That is going to be $600 and if I sold it for $1000 (which what I was willing to go down from my $1500 original price), that would have left me $400 to play with... now I have no idea what I would be able to get for it. Maybe be able to part it out for more than I can sell it whole for, but I really do not want to go there.

Now I am really at a crossroads.

If the bottom seal on the gear box blew out which can happen, its a $3 seal. You can even change it while its in the car, but I removed the gear box when I did mine. I hate working up sidedown.

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Oh? That is interesting. Thanks Hat for that info. Is there any instructions here I can look up the procedure for replacement, or should I just let the shop do it? How labor intensive is it? If I were to go to the parts store- what do I ask for.... gear box lower seal? I wonder if it can even be bought somewhere like O'Reilly, or Autozone/Advance/A-1?

I think you can get the whole kit with all the seals for the gearbox through Fastlane for about $20. I was going to get a kit for my gearbox which has a very slow seep caused by flushing with ATF (I guess ATF back in '85 was a lot milder than today's ATF). It's a slow seep and I've only had to top off once in my nearly 7 months of ownership, so the seal replacement will be a rainy day project.

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W126 FSM covers the procedure. You need to figure out what is leaking first.

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