just a thought...I am dealing with a crapped out power steering pump right now and was told that I would also need to replace one of the hoses. Apparently there is a "bulge" in one of the hoses that contains a filter for the PS fluid...of course, if yours is a manual rack, that won't have any relevance. If you DO have PS, perhaps you might check to see if one of your hoses even has the filter...that could be why yours looks like it does with all of those small particles...they would be much larger than what the filter would pass.
Good luck...
Cheers!
Dugly
