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[Andy B]

Dex3 atf

is it not DEX 2? 

[Enceladus]

Power steering is Dexron iii.

[Doctor Gollum]

Power steering is Dexron iii.

Same as the slushbox

[addy]

Thanks for all the help. I bought some proper hydraulic hose and some decent jubilee clips. I cut out the old compression fitting, that you can see in the picture. Cleaned up the metal pipe then fitted a piece of the hydraulic hose and tightened the jubilee clips, until they wouldn't tight no more but the fluid was still sprayed out.  So in the end bought a 10mm water compression fitting from screwfix and tried that. It seems to be working, just got loads of air in the system so go to get it out. I was looking how the pipe routes, it looks like the radiators have to come out, to allow the complete pipe to come out from both sides. Or is can it be removed without removing the radiators, so I can get a new one made at a hydraulic place?

Thanks again for the help.
Addy

[Doctor Gollum]

It only runs on the right of the radiator.

[addy]

When I traced the metal one in the picture, the passenger hand side goes to the steering pump. The drivers side goes over the chassis rail and looks like it goes to the steering box.  I thought if I undid both ends, I could of manouvered it out, without removing radiators and other stuff around them.

[Doctor Gollum]

V6 might be different then I thought it looped across the bottom of the condenser/front lower cross member...

[addy]

There is another pipe under the metal one that goes from one side to the other. It also has hydraulic rubber hose and fittings that go to it. I thought that I had got one, but it was off a 2.2 that is different again. I did try the rubber hydraulic hose and proper clamps, but it blew the fluid out, so as said fitted a compression fitting which seems to work, so is the metal one a high pressure line?

[dave the builder]

I think there is confusion here 
 autobox cooler is a loop ,
PAS is 2 pipes ,high and low pressure
https://vauxhall.7zap.com/en/car/v94/l/0/18-1/

[addy]

The metal pipe is the one that was leaking at the joint, on the left side as in the photo. The fluid definately came out under alot of pressure. It comes from the front of the steering pump, then across the front of the car then joined to the pipe coming from the left side, with what looked like a compression fitting.

[Tick Tock]

Any help? Nothing in the cooler group needs to be removed. (V6).

[addy]

Thanks Tick Tock

So just have to remove bumper. I see on your picture that the pipes are different again to the 2.6. In that there is no connector on the top pipe, as mine has where the pipe from the steering box, comes down to meet the one going across the front. Your picture looks like the engine is a 2.5? I wonder if at a push the 2.5 one would fit from the steering pump to the steering box?

[dave the builder]

IIRC the power steering pump is slightly different between early and late V6s 
so that might make the connections wrong perhaps .I don't know
just a cautionary note

[addy]

Thanks Dave the Builder for the info.
Looks like will be getting one made up hopefully. At least I was able to move the car in the drive, as got builders in the next few days.