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If your rack is leaking fluid into the boots then it is on it's way out for sure. Kind of crystal ball territory here but a rack like that can go for some time leaking out of the rack itself or it can go catastrophic like Bob's did and then you are done. While running the pump out of fluid is far from a good thing it is really amazing how much abuse that pump will take. I had a car in the shop yesterday that was like that, I topped it off and everything went right back to working just fine and the customer had been running it like that for an indefinite period of time already. Still, NOT ADVISABLE. Those pumps are far from cheap as well.
List on that rack is in the area of $575.00 and I believe the ends were 40-50 bucks apiece as well, add about 2.5-3.0 hours labor for install and align, 5 bucks in fluid and you will be up into the 8-9 hundred dollar range quick. If you buy the parts yourself and have what it takes to do it yourself you can save some money but you will probably spend all of one afternoon (or more) doing it and you will still need an alignment.
If you are replacing the reservoir you might want to replace the suction and return hoses as well. Like Bob pointed out, by this point in time most of those hoses are so darn hard that you cannot remove them without risking damage to the reservoir or slitting the hoses. If you are reusing the reservoir then just cut and replace the hoses, if you are running a new res the just take it out as an assembly with the hoses still attached to the res.
Mark
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