Power Steering cooling pipe

[Dragonwight]

Like most MX-3`s the return cooling pipe for the power steering on my MX-3 has had its day. No way am i paying what they are asking for an OEM replacement part. So i took it to my local garage who are quite handy with pipe making etc and they said they would simply cut the pipe off and stick a rubber hose on.

Apparently they have done this on a few MX-3`s with no ill effect. Has anyone else done this and found it was ok? I could get length of copper pipe and do it myself but dont have the means to create the ends of the pipe.

[Daninski]

I spoke with a knowledgeable service manager at Mazda about this and he advised against it. If there's a wreckers near you lots of cars have very similar pipes Hyundai being one of them. Grab a similar pipe and bend it to fit. There is no need for any special end just slide the rubber hose on and clamp it like Jed.

[MrMazda92]

clamp it like Jed.

LOL!
I don't think I've seen this reference before... Total nostalgia though, thanks for that!

[mikeinaus]

ive got a hose i could sell you but shipping might be a killer...

[Dragonwight]

Thanks for the offer i think shipping might be a tad expensive as you say. Ill just make a pipe up I can get 3 metres of 10mm copper pipe for £10 then just make like a hill billie.

[Daninski]

When I put a new rad in my other MX3 it had provisions for an automatic trans so I was going to connect my PS to it.

[wagZE]

Am I the only one who doesn't run power steering?

[Nd4SpdSe]

PS WTF!

[Josh]

You are Wag

On the AWD RS I have used a ford probe oil cooler for the PS cooler. works just fine. I was planning on using an ATX rad and use the cooler in it for the PS.

I was wondering about using an RS cooler vs the GS cooler anyways as the RS cooler is so much smaller. I do not think that there would be any ill effects.