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I'm happy to hear that. I've been underneath and eyeballed it pretty hard. The pressure line looks pretty hard to get a wrench at and the return looks twice as bad.

I've been looking at how to change these lines myself. Has anyone done these lines before? it appears to be a super tight spot to get into. I believe that I can get the pressure line disconnected with an angled open ended wrench,,but the return line looks impossible without dropping the rack. Any advice?

That is worth a shot. I found replacement lines easily at parts geek,,does not say "oem",,looks just like oem. why the fuss over using only oem,,I have not had any issues using aftermarket parts on any other vehicle i have owned,,I don't see why these lines will somehow be so special that I need the subaru manufactured part

sounds like it's gonna be an adventure. I'll do what I can. If all fails I'll have to just do without power steering,,I'll remove the pump and rig up a dummy pulley to get rid of the awful noise

Also,,parts subaru.com says not available on the power steering lines,,and $300 if they had them,,seems a bit excessive for some lines

I have seen some high pressure hose that is rated at 2250 psi,,the fittings may be the trick to getting that to work.

I recently bought this impreza,,runs great, 100k miles. Won't hold power steering fluid for very long due to rusted lines, power steering works great after filling and for the brief time it has fluid in the system. 1. I'm not having much luck finding oem lines, anyone have a "spot" 2. There are several aftermarket lines that I've seen, but i've been told by 2 different mechanics to go with OEM, not sure if they are just grumpy mechanics or if there is good reaon behind this. 3. Why couldn't I just run high pressure hose (if i can get the proper fittings) from the rack and pinion all the way to where it turns up into the engine bay? This seems reasonable to me, but i'm a dumb electrician so what do I know. 4. The repair/replacement looks to be not too complicated,,any tips or tricks? I'll try it myself at first. It's running dry on fluid at the moment so the worst case would be that I attempt and fail and am running dry without the lines connected, or ruined completely. Any advice will be appreciated.

I recently bought a 93 impreza wagon,,only 100k miles. very clean interior. Minor mech issues. main issue at the moment is the power steering lines are rusted and leak like a sieve, hoping to get some advice for that as well as anything else that may pop up. I'm a car audio hobbyist, so hopefully I can help/learn in that regard also.