hi all

returned back to the audi camp last week after a few years away (in the volvo camp) with an audi 80 2.8 e quattro.

i have noticed that there is a noise at a certain point on the steering travel.

i have never seen power steering before with a ram attached on it and the noise sounds like the rod is bent slightly and it is rubbing the seal on its way back into the body of the ram?? maybe the seal is just worn?
there also seems to have been a leak or it is still leaking as there looks like power steering fluid and muck all over the inner wing on the nearside around the underneath of the ram body? fluid level is low too!

question is can this ram be renewed on its own or is it part of the rack?

the end near the middle of the cars look about my level of expertise being one nut bolt but i cant quite work out how to detach the ram body on the far nearside??? not a lot of access in there !

cheers in advance

andy