Power Steering Pump

[buckshotmudder]

Earlier today I was up at work and I pulled the xplorer into the garage and I noticed I was leaking some fluid. I got under it and it appears to be coming from the power steering pump. It looks like its coming out of the bottom where the pitman arm attaches. Maybe a seal went back in it or something? Anyone ever had any problems with this? Im gonna clean it up good tomorrow and try to pin point exactly where its at though. If its bad, Im thinking it will be a job for my friend at the Ford Dealership and not something that I would try cause there isnt much room to move anything around there and it looks like alot of things are attached to it

 

[l1k2gadd]

Make sure you don't have a hose going bad or a clamp that has loosened up and is spraying or dripping fluid onto the power steering gearbox (from your description that included a pitman arm being attached to it). I troubleshot what I thought was a bad power steering PUMP in a 1991 F150 I used to own and after replacing the high pressure hose I ran the pump dry and messed up the front seal. I changed the pump, but still had the %!#* leak. I replaced the return line AND external cooler and found a factory pressure bent clamp had broken on the original external cooler return hose. That was my problem from the start. A $30.00 repair cost me around $100.00 for not checking everything first.
When my mom's E150 Club Wagon XLT developed a power steering leak I thought it was a high pressure hose. IT wound up being a Power Steering Sensor that was screwed into the high pressure hose that had a wiring connector on it.