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prado pwer-steering bleed

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 5:52 pm
by JR
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.

Re: prado pwer-steering bleed

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:17 pm
by juz
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.

Re: prado pwer-steering bleed

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:32 pm
by skid
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

Re: prado pwer-steering bleed

Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:54 pm
by JR
cheers skid,few pointers never hurt :D

Re: prado pwer-steering bleed

Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 8:00 am
by flyingbrick
It will sound horrible as you do it.

Its normal

Re: prado pwer-steering bleed

Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 8:57 pm
by JR
went to fix today, but found starter had packed a sad. now thats sitting on the bench, in a hundred bits,(cheers axle :D )