OK, i am going to change my power steering fluid. Is it worth it to get it flushed by a place with a ps fuild exchanger or should i just do it myself and save the money?
my PS fluid is black...and theres no telling when the last time it was changed. If yours is this bad, i would reccomend getting it flushed. If not, dont worry about it, and just replace yourself.
Ok, let me tell you guys something. Have you ever seen how an actual "flush is done"? All that happens is they suck it out, fill it up, turn it lock to lock, suck it out, fill it, turn it lock to lock, do that a couple more times. and you save yourself about 80 bucks. when you turn it lock to lock, it agitates up all the old nasty fluid. it works really really well, i own a shop and we do it alllll the time.
No...you wanna use nothing but PS fluid to refill/flush...Tell me your not thinking agua as in water... Anything but PS fluid is gonna roach the entire system...
Raise the front end,with wheels off the ground,disconnect the rack fluid return hose and direct it to a drain pan,get another person to start the car and start turning the wheels back and forth while you dump say a quart of ATF through the system.When that runs out,keep turning the wheels a bit longer then shut off the engine,reconnect the return line,fill up the pump,start the engine and with the wheels still off the ground move the steering wheel back and forth to bleed the system of air and get the fluid level up.