Question: Exner-era Chrysler power steering

[4t64rd]

I told my Dad I'd get his neglected 60 Imperial running and driving. He says he put power steering fluid in his power steering pump. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

He'd been doing this for 2 years until he found out you are supposed to put transmission fluid in the power steering. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Would draining the power steering fluid and re-filling with the correct tranny fluid solve the leaking, or does the box and the pump need all new seals?

[RileyRacing]

Aren't they the same thing, only power steering fluid doesn't have the red dye? I think it's all just 10W oil anyways... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

jay

[4t64rd]

bttt

[Machinos]

According to my 55 shop manual, it comes with regular motor oil in the system, and if it runs down you add ATF. Of course, that's the kind of ATF there was in the 50's, but I've been checking my fluid regularly over the last 4k miles and it hasn't really gone down, and it's obviously mostly ATF in there (it's all pink).

I think power steering fluid basically is ATF, just marginally different. Some new cars still call for ATF as power steering fluid, but most use a specific type of PSF because they're full of weird seals and stuff. I don't think a '60 would know the difference.

[DrJ]

I think it was until sometime in the 70s, ATF was WHALE OIL.
(No you ccan't get it any more unless you go to a market that doesn't have a Whale embargo.)