V6 Power Steering Hose High pressure or return?

[LincolnDriver]

Well I'm still getting familiar with this car.
It looks like a hose is leaking from the bottom of the power steering pump.
(If you're under the car and looking straight up on the drivers side, it's the hose that's way up there directly underneath the pump).

Is this the high pressure line or the return line?

 

[TNT_Tile]

Wish I could help. I have the same leak on a 2003. Seems like mine is coming from the threads around a pressure switch. I think it is the return from the steering rack to the power steering pump but I am not sure. Have to ask someone on here that knows a little more about cars then me. Should help move your question to the front page, so I hope you get your awnswer.

 

[joegr]

The bottom hose (large diameter) is the suction hose. It comes from the reservoir.
The smaller diameter hose just above that is the pressure hose. It goes to the rack. It is more likely that the leak is where the high pressure hose swivels coming out of the pump than it is for it to be the suction hose. A leak in the suction hose usually results in air bubbles in the pump, which make noise.