Leaking steering rack?

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Matt

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My car has developed a leak of some sort, looks to be coming from the steering rack.
Its a pale brown greasy sludge.
It seems to be dripping onto the drivers side drive shaft and getting flicked onto the downpipe and surrounding area. :wall:
Its then burning on the downpipe giving off a little smoke that smells similar to burning rubber.
Does this sound right? Does power steering fluid when burnt smell like that?
Thanks :thumbsup:
 
Have you checked your inner CV boots? It may have burst and the rotating drive shaft can flick grease onto the downpipe. Same thing happened my Type R.
 
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Have you checked your inner CV boots? It may have burst and the rotating drive shaft can flick grease onto the downpipe. Same thing happened my Type R.


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very same thing happened my Type-R also .....drive boot burst flicking greese onto engine+downpipe ,i only noticed when i got the smell
 
Is the inner cv boot where it meets the gearbox?
I did check that rubber boot and it seems fine :dontknow:
Thanks for the replys :thumbsup:
 
Had a look around about inner cv boot problems and found this picture.
Looks like you were right thanks lads as this picture is exactly where and what mess i saw under the car earlier.
Ill have a proper look tomorrow :thumbsup:
 

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Got a new inner cv boot from camskill. Fitted it yesterday so problem solved. Thanks for the advice :thumbsup:
 
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