Old-school International power steering pressure hose problem

[1976internat1603]

Hello friends! I'm back again with more mechanical problems! It seems like I'm stuck and fixing this bus more than I'm traveling in it!!!

This time around it's my power steering pressure hose. It's been developing a leak overtime and now it's at the point where I'm using a quart of power steering fluid every time I start it to go anywhere...

Normally if this was a problem I would just go to a store, get the part and replace it, but I can't find it anywhere!!! With my old International (1976, 1603, 345 engine) it's near impossible to find anything but I'm able to supplement it by saying it is a scout ll with the same type of engine. But I guess they use a different power steering hose, as the connections were different when I tried that this time

The hose has 2 different numbers on them, I wasn't sure which was the part number, but both numbers have given me nothing online. I'll add pictures and would appreciate any help in finding the part online or advice for finding old-school parts in the Phoenix area.

I looked into repairing it and was quoted over $300 dollars which is a lot to pay for a hose!! If I have to I guess I can do it but that takes over half my money right now! If it's avoidable then I would love to avoid that

Thanks for your help and advice!

Explanation for the picture: the hose is leaking from the parts that connect to the rubber hose, I tried wrapping it in high tension silicone tape but that did nothing.

 

[1976internat1603]

This was a pretty easy one actually, I limped it over to a hydraulic repair shop after calling around and finding one who worked on hoses. They pretty much updated it to have a replaceable pressure hose, it cost me about 115$ which is much better than 300 I was quoted at a different spot.

 

[Ronnie-SKO]

I had to do the same thing, make a hose with replaceable ends. I was unlucky that it blew and sprayed the exhaust manifold catching fire right away. I keep a large co2 extinguiser right by the door, so was very lucky to save it with only minor damage.



Old steering lines are best to replace and not take the chance.

 

[cadillackid]

NAPA has made me a couple powered steering hoses .. none for my loadstar yet but one each for my other busses... so far no issues after a few years..


the power steering pressure on these loadstars is likely pretty high as the power steering on these big busses is as easy to turn as my 1976 cadillac was