How do you change power steering cooler on 1994 Pontiac Bonneville?

Answer 1

I just replaced the Power Steering cooler on my wife's 1994 Pontiac Bonneville on Sunday, April 20th 2008. It took me about three hours and I purchased the cooler at AutoZone. After jacking the car up, I disconnected the line from the power steering pump to the cooler and drained the fluid into a bucket. Then I cut the other cooler line near the cooler to drain from the power steering box. AutoZone included a fitting to the box. Unfortunately, I couldn't remove and replace it so I simply cut the line with a pipe cutter tool after the 90 degree bend. I removed the excess old coolant line from the cooler to the box. I removed the mounting bolt from the old cooler bracket and removed the old cooler and bracket. I cut the bracket off the old cooler and placed it on the new cooler using the plastic tie straps included in the kit from AutoZone and bolted it in place. I connected the line from the power steering pump to the cooler. Then using the line included in the kit connected it from the new cooler to the cut line to the box. I added new power steering fluid and I was back in business.