Power steering cooler

[sussexbriefly]

My BMW has a simple loop of pipe in front of the radiator that the power steering fluids runs through as a simple cooler.

For a road car running in the UK is his necessary. The pipes are in the way, and i wonder whether i bother to relocate the cooler or delete it ?

I'm using a zafira electric PS pump in my convernsion.

[Bigpie]

My beetle had one too, 12k miles later my zafira pump it still running fine. For my current project, a BMW E91, Ive changed to an electric rack instead.

[jrbe]

It's hard to know how efficient the zafira pump is. But if it did not have a cooler line originally you might be able to eliminate it.

Personally I would try to reroute the cooler line and keep it. I've had the power steering fluid boil over in one of my track cars, had to add a cooler after it was built.