How to change p.s fluid????

[goodguys75]

getting ready to get a new steering gear box ( red head )... and by removing the lines you will loose fluid, but do I just suction the rest of the fluid out of the power steering tank or how do you drain the rest of the fluid???? I figured it would be a good time to do it... ... thanks andre

 

[HBarlow]

My understanding is you'll have to use something like a turkey baster and suck the fluid out. No drain provision provided.

 

[jeepit]

When I was changing my PS fluid I used a turkey baster as Harvey said.

 

[goodguys75]

I work on an ambulance ( meat wagon ) so i will use a huge syringe... ... thanks.....

 

[BIGNASTY]

Go to a parts store and buy a suction pump. Stick hose in fluid reservoir and pull up handle and spit it out in bucket do it a few times then re-fill and start truck and turn wheels and do it again. I did mine several times to get all the fluid it doesn't take much to re-fill each time.

 

[goodguys75]

thats the way to do it... ... thanks sound like a good time... .

 

[Joseph Donnelly]

See Issue 40, p. 26.

 

[Bob4x4]

Just a heads up... ... ... the new Mopar box will be a much better box than the rebuilt from redhead. The thing to keep in mind there are no new parts being manufactured for the old box so used parts are going in and the number of non worn parts are shrinking... ... There is a higher price involved but it is also much beefier.

 

[AEdelheit]

Or you just pull the line off the cooler that goes into the bottom of the PS resivoir and it will drain, much easier then trying to suck it out. Depending on what tools you have it may also be easier to pull the box with the hoses still attached, just pull one end off the cooler inlet and the other off the hydro boost outlet, much easier to get to those connections.

 

[Prairie Dog]

Just a heads up... ... ... the new Mopar box will be a much better box than the rebuilt from redhead. The thing to keep in mind there are no new parts being manufactured for the old box so used parts are going in and the number of non worn parts are shrinking... ... There is a higher price involved but it is also much beefier.

Red Head replaces the bushings with their own ball or needle bearings and hand picks the recirculating balls to take up any slop.
They're are far better than the original box and don't rely on replacement parts from Dodge. They don't use any kind of worn replacement parts. The new Dodge box may be good but Red Head makes a very high quality unit that after rebuild is probably built out of better bearings and with better tolerances than the new style gear is.
You can 't go wrong with either unit IMO.

 

[Bob4x4]

They still use worn oem hard parts. I have received them with bad gears out of the box. There is no comparison to to the new oem box. I do these every day

 

[Prairie Dog]

If sector gears are worn they are replaced. RH does not send out gears with slop and will scrap rather than do so. The new gears are good but the same technology as the old and will likely wear in a similar fashion - hopefully slower since they are heavier.
RH is not the typical rebuilder. (I've had lots of experience with them. )

 

[Bob4x4]

I have a friend who is also on here that went trough 3 redheads before giving up on redhead and another friend not on here that had one that felt bad when first installed. We tore it apart to find a chunk missing off the sector gear
No thanks as long as a new beefier box available

 

[The patriot]

My understanding is you'll have to use something like a turkey baster and suck the fluid out. No drain provision provided.

This is how I do mine. It will not get it all out, but I do mine every year so it's pretty much all new. :