Repair to worn/rusted Power Steering return line on Acura RSX

Metal return line had worn/rusted under a mounting bracket underneath the steering rack. Was leaking a few drops each night and getting worse.
One trip under the hood to clean up the oil and locate the leak. 2nd trip to replace metal line and do the rubber ones while I was at it.
With 460,000+ km on this 19 year old car, the rubber lines were beginning to show their age, and it was also well-past time to change out the fluid for some good OEM Honda PS fluid.
If you're going to do this, get yourself some metric flare nut wrenches. Getting the flare nuts off at the PS box was BY FAR the hardest part of this job.
Also make sure you remove the heat shield that attaches to the car above the exhaust manifold. It's critical to get access to the hose hanger bracket on the bottom of the PS rack, and it just makes life MUCH easier by giving you a little more room to work.
White hose clips can be removed by pushing the top part sideways until it slides out of the bottom part. Just click them closed after you put in the new hose.
USE OEM Honda fluid. Apparently other PS fluid can deteriorate the hoses and seals in the system much faster.
Happy knuckle skinning!

[@jptrainor]

OEM or aftermarket parts (other than fluid)? My 2006 Civic, owned since new, with 330k km, finally sprung a leak in the lower return pipe. It's a $9 aftermarket part, $60 for the Honda part. I haven't decided if I'll replace the whole return line. The rest of it looks okay except for this one pipe that happens to be exposed directly to the elements.

[@rondaniels9974]

Thanks for watching! Sorry, I can't remember. Likely I did OEM as it's a critical safety system. Inspect the ends of the hoses well before you do the work. I wound up not loving how the ends of the rubber return line looked, so I changed it out while I was at it. I used OEM fluid and flushed about 2 systems volumes through to make sure that the fluid was pretty clean. Most important thing was to have flare nut wrenches to be able to remove the lines without wrecking the flare nuts.