Procedure for flushing the power steering please.

[drdave]

Can somebody please post an easy procedure for flushing the power steering in a Gen2 MTX?

 

[fricker66]

See this write-up on shotimes.com

Note: I have not personally tried this method. Anybody have better suggestions?

<small>[ May 06, 2003, 11:19 AM: Message edited by: fricker66 ]</small>

 

[sdpatt]

The A1 Cardone site has a few procedures. Their Royal Flush article is here.

 

[SHOZ123]

If your present fluid is very dirty then I would first do this. Siphon the reservoir down and add some cheap ATX. Keep doing this until the fluid stays clean. This may take quite some time. If you don't then the fluid will get dirty again in no time.

I did it evey two days for a week, every 4 days for a week, once a week for 2 weeks then flushed per article and added some Amsoil ATX fluid.

After doing this it has stayed clean for two years. But I had the pulsing in a constant turn syndrome. 2oz of Auto-RX and 1000 miles cured this. I just left the Auto-RX in there.

 

[shojuan]

Is it just me? Doug Lewis' method in the shotimes article seems a little scary because it seems like you run the pump dry for a bit. Maybe I'm just being overly cautious? shrug The Performance Plus method described in the same article seems safer to me. Any Opinions?

Paul, I'm going to follow your dilution method suggestion before doing a complete flush and fill. I've still got the original factory fill in my PS system. No PS problems (yet) knock on wood but crap I better get some clean stuff in there. Think I'll flush with Valvoline Maxlife ATF and then final fill with Redline Power Steering fluid.

 

[SHOZ123]

My fluid looked like coffee when I decided to change it. I flushed by taking a PS cooler hose off and letting the car idle while a friend turned the wheel back and forth and I poured in a gallon of Wally World ATX. Then I filled with Amsoil ATX. In two weeks it looked as bad as originally. That is when I decided to do it a little bit at a time. This will get it clean and it will stay clean. Just put in some quality fluid at the end.

 

[SHOTerror]

Yeah, I just changed out my tranny fluid in my '90 with valvoline maxlife.. OOhh what a difference that made. But anyway, I decided to go at the muddy power steering fluid.. so I vacuumed out all the fluid started her up did the move lock to lock, then I vacuumed up everything that came into resevoir and again went lock to lock until no fluid would come up. I then proceeded to add close to a quart, which is the capacity, of valvoline maxlife power steering fluid. Then I started her up let her suck that up and went lock to lock until it quited down a bit, I think it will take a while to get all the air out of there, but I can tell already the difference of having clean fluid in there.