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pathy1217
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Car: 97 Pathfinder LE 4X4

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To flush your power steering, do you just get a turkey blaster and suck all the fluid out of the reservoir? Or how does it work?


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W O T
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Car: 2001 Infiniti Qx4

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You like making threads eh

Anyways yeah, thats the easiest way. Simply buy a turkey baster at the dollar store, open up your resevoir, suck up all the fluid you can (about 400ml probly), and throw in fresh fluid, start the car and turn the wheels lock to lock a couple times, car off, suck the fluid out again, etc etc

I did mine a total of 6 times I think, but I did it over 2 days, just popping the hood and doing it here and there after daily driving, so I know the new fluid was getting mixed in.

Pretty cheap maintenance, atf fluid works GREAT

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pathy1217
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Haha yeah i do like making threads. I just have tons of questions going through my head. Thanks for the reply, thats how i thought you did it but i didnt know you had to do it over and over again like that but i will try it out.

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Well yeah if you only sucked out the resevoir once, you would only be changing 25% of the fluid, so you cycle it in with the old stuff and do it a few times and youre fluid is as clean/new as possible, without doing a full drain/flush (which isnt recomended anyways)


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