prado pwer-steering bleed

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JR
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prado pwer-steering bleed

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just going to put the power-steering all back together tomorow. been told you have to bleed it, cant be to hard so sure ill work it out. still, any tips or do's or donts would be most handy, cheers.
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Re: prado pwer-steering bleed

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guess its just the same as any powersteering, go lock to lock topping it up til takes no more and is smooth.Could be wrong tho.
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jack the front off the ground to do it

sometimes you dont have to, but if you end up with aerated fluid then you will have to lift front off ground and redo it

so may as well do it to start with
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cheers skid,few pointers never hurt :D
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It will sound horrible as you do it.

Its normal
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Re: prado pwer-steering bleed

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went to fix today, but found starter had packed a sad. now thats sitting on the bench, in a hundred bits,(cheers axle :D )
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