Power Steering Return Line = EXON VALDEZ ?

[54blackhornet]

After The Seahawks game yesterday I worked on removing the steering box and pump from my 71 K-10, I can't believe how much "gunk" has collected during the last 43 years around the leaking POS return line ? I don't believe the Valdez accident leaked out that much oil ? The PO cobbled together a return line out of pieces of rubber hose spliced together with metal tubing, this can't be how GM originally designed it ? The pressure side is one piece with tight fittings on both ends, how come not on the return side ?....