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Hack Engineering Power Steering Lines

There was a fair few things that bothered me when I stripped the car. The main one was the use of "push-on" fittings which were a pain to use and most of which had perished to the point of requiring destructive removal. Given this and the terrible state of all the power steering hoses I knew straight away that I wanted to find an after-market alternative to replace the aged hoses and try and remove the "push-on" fittings from the system.







 During my research I found that there was a fair few people out there that had hose companies make them up replacement hoses instead of getting OEM replacements. As much as I liked the idea of this it still left me with basically the same hose setup so I kept looking and stumbled across the Hack Engineering Power Steering Lines Sets (for E46 M3).



There were three options to chose from:
  1. Replace the lines but keep the "push-on" connectors to the cooler
  2. Replace the lines and upgrade the cooler to AN fittings
  3. Replace the lines and upgrade the cooler to an aftermarket option
Obviously option 1 was no good as it kept the very connectors I wanted to remove so it had to be option 2 or 3. I didn't really see much of a need to upgrade to an aftermarket cooler and also believed that if I had upgraded all the lines to AN fittings then I could swap in an aftermarket cooler at a later date if it became apparent that it was required. So with that in mind I settled on Option 2 and placed an order.



 I am hoping that this works as intended and I don't suffer any power steering fluid temperature issues as I am not really keen to procure and mount an aftermarket cooler just for the power steering rack. I guess we will have to wait until I get this in and get it to the track, but anecdotally I have never heard of anyone having any power steering fluid temperature issues so this should work out.
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