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Naphtha and a couple bottles of "Honda" Power Steering Fluid... Mrs. complained about "frozen up steering" on the 92 Accord the other day when it was below 17 F... found a bunch of gunk built up inside the reservoir and "Filter" for the power steering system...
Cleaned everything up with some Denatured Alcohol and Naphtha... put everything back together and filled the system up with Idemitsu Honda fluid... seems to work fine after the clean up was done, but it was at least 20 degrees warmer when I was messing with the car today... so I won't know if cleaning things up will fix the problem or if it's about time to rebuild the unit (~290k miles on the car  )If it doesn't need a rebuild, it might just be time for a new cap on the reservoir... as I don't know why the system was dirty, it just had new fluid put in just over a year ago 
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12-09-2018, 01:11 PM
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12-09-2018, 03:06 PM
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 not me that's for sure  I replaced the Power Steering hoses shortly after getting the car a few years ago, and when I had them off the car the other day to clean the Reservoir Screen they still look, feel, and act like a brand new hose should... we will get a few more years out of those hoses before needing replaced again (with OE molded hose) 
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12-09-2018, 03:28 PM
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Ordered 2 bottles of Hickory Honey Chipoltlie sauce for our part of this years Christmas dinner. just gotta hope it arrives on time.
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12-12-2018, 01:21 PM
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12-12-2018, 02:28 PM
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My wallet is a lot lighter today...
Ordered a few more things to make my Forester XT behave a little better in the mountain twisties and with the extremely high winds we have out here... Beatrush Front and Rear Upper Strut Bar Brace, and a 22mm Adjustable Rear Sway Bar Under-steer and body roll be gone
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12-12-2018, 03:48 PM
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12-12-2018, 04:50 PM
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While that looks nice and shiny, I went the other route for a few reasons...
Tiny parts need upgraded... this time it is the rear sway bar... (IME) it dramatically helps with under-steer on Subaru's Missing parts on almost every car... upper strut bracing... helps keep my Subaru "boxer" suspension as "square" as possible after all Other reasons I went with those parts listed... 1) We want to keep our ground clearance... 2) Our current suspension still has about 30k miles (or more) of life before I am willing to fork over the cash for the "suspension parts" I want 3) We want to keep our ground clearance...
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12-12-2018, 08:19 PM
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For some odd reason, I'm now hungry for some Rice
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Another night in a hotel.
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