DIY Power Steering Flush

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DIY Power Steering Flush

I looked around and found a lot of different DIYs on how to do this but this one seems pretty straight forward. Dealer wants like 80 bucks or so to do it. Thanks Bman


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First your gonna unhook the Power Steering fluid

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Loosen the 2 clamps that hold the hoses onto the resevoir

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Do not remove the hoses yet

Use a "fluid extractor" tool, which is basically just a hand pump that you'd find on a bottle of hand sanitizer, or anything else like that, with 2 hoses attached..

So you take that, and you put the in end inside of the reservoir and the out end into your empty bottle

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pump away until the reservoir is empty

now take a hose, and connect it to the smaller hose, the one on top of the reservoir

turn on the car, and turn it all the way left, and all the way right, a few times, until the wheel gets stiff and/or fluid stops pouring out

This is what i pulled out

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wipe off your brake reservoir just bc its filthy.. re install it onto the little clip

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plug ur hoses back in, dont forget ur clamps..

fill it up to the neck, get in your car, and turn it all the way right, and all the way left again, it should start off loose, and get softer, when i first did it, i had a little squeak, but it smoothed out really quick.
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