Is that a rip-off? I feel so taken advantage of. I mean, it's not like I was going to do it muself anyway, but......

 

Depending on where you are located, usually the dealers here in CA charges around $99 to replace the power steering fluid. Of course it will be much cheaper to do it yourself.

 

I don't feel like such a sucker now. Thanks!!!

 

When I was getting my oil changed like 3 days ago they said I should change my ps fluid as well.. for 70$, I didn't get it done but sounds like 40$ is a good price.

 

Did they do more than just drain and fill the tank? Did they flush the lines (whole system)? if so sounds like a good deal.

 

THey TOLD me they flushed the system. Whether or not they actually did, I guess I'll never know.

 

I didn't even know it was a service item. I never once changed it in nay of my cars, one I still own with 130 k on it.

There's no drain plug, so you'd have to suck it out out or pull a line off. If the flushed it, they'd have to hook some sort of pump to it, who knows if that would even work right because there must be check valves.

 

I read a thread a week or two ago that said you could change the fluid with a turkey baster.. just suck the oil fluid out and pour some new stuff in.

 

Yep, that's one way of doing it. You could open up your bleed valves and drain it all out, fill it back up, then re bleed to get the air out of the system. Just depends. I think the turkey baster is the easist way to get the majority of it out, then you bleed the lines to get most of the rest out, and top off as needed.

 

I didn't know there were bleed valves? where are they and what do they look like?

 

Nipples

 

it cost me $4.00 for a full flush, including a new return line, since my old one was burn't threw by the exhaust manifold.








68 mustang's are cheap to work on

 

You can also take off the return line and flush it like the ghetto flush of an auto tranny. That's how I did my PS fluid. It's recommended about every 60K miles. I just switched it to synthetic so I probably won't have to worry about it again. BTW...that method was a bi1ch and messy.

 

I can only imagine. What all got "wet", so to speak?