Re: Can't get off the power steering cap

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> <rob&rob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> I have a 1990 F150 pickup.  I know the power steering fluid is low
>> from the noise.  The cap is a plastic thing with 2 fins to turn.  I
>> have tried and tried and it will not come off.
> 
> If you are absolutely sure that the cap turns to come off (does it have
> arrows on the top?) and that the cap doesen't simply snap off, and the
cap
> isn't already turned off and isn't just waiting to lift off, an old
trick is
> to take a teakettle of water and get it to a good rolling boil, put a
> cloth on the cap, then slowly pour the water on the cloth.  After a
> few minutes the heat will soften the plastic enough to loosen the cap.
> 
> Ted
> 
> 

Don't all f150's have that common steering noise???  I think rangers 
have it too ;P