Power steering hose...Really?

[jonesg]

Hi, I've got a leaking high pressure power steering line (rubber section). I read someplace that you have to drop the sub-frame to replace it. I'm really hoping that's not the case. No lift, no garage, etc. 04 V70R M66
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hang on a few more weeks, winter will be breaking soon,
it was below zero last night but next saturday will be 40F. Then we will be into March. I'm in maine , up near Houlton.

[jonesg]

Is there enough room to flare the pipe and put in a piece of flex pipe until Spring? The other path would be to cut out the rubber hose, route oil back to the reservoir and drive it manual steering for the interim

or use a tubing cutter to cut the hard line 3 inches from the rubber and recrimp the junction or have a hose shop do it, tell them its for a tractor (not a car), compression fitting to repair the hard line. I might try this myself.

[vtl]

Mine has a small cut/crack (about 1/4") in the rubber section just below the ferrule that connects the two rubber sections.

Two pieces of hydraulic hose, three ferrules, one crimping tool.