To get rid of all the air in your power steering system takes awhile but this method will definitely get rid of all the air. You have to be patient and keep going till no more air escapes.
Great video and explanation! This procedure is no joke, though! I just replaced the Steering Gear Box on a 2005 Duramax, and performed a "traditional" flush of the fluid. When I drove home I would intermittently lose power steering. I found this video and gradually worked the air out of the system over the course of the next few days - I got impatient and would have to repeat the process, but each time the steering would get better. All in all, I think I must have turned the steering wheel at least 100 cycles before all the air was removed. I wish there was a easier method that worked just as well. I got a case of Golfer's Elbow (medial tendinitis) from all the wheel turning.
Good job . This reminds me of changing out a pto pump on a truck . The air bubbles are in the fluid and are recirculated in the small tank. My tdi jetta blew off a hose and I replaced it . I did not have any ATF so I used 10 wt hydraulic oil and started it up and cycled the wheel several times and let it set . Started it up nice a quiet . Been that way for a couple years . Nice and quiet . Thanks for the video and advice .
Cap should of been off while turning the wheele, thats why there was pressure when removing cap afterwards + having to do it a million time. Doing it like that just makes foam since the air cant escape freely. So yeah as you can imagine that will take a long time
Did it both ways on and off...its funny some people say cap on and some say cap off. I even bled system with the vacuum method. Just took forever because entire system was new and dry.
Very relevant to me here in Oz, just doing a Mitsubishi ute and this method is working. Your accent reminds me of Bill Burr ; do you tell jokes too? ( Bill’s from Boston).
The fluid might bubble over if cap is off. But you can hear the air escape with cap on and then you can stop turning if you don't hear the air escape. That will be short of a million billion times
The pump will be damaged, you want the fluid to be sucked by the rack actuator no pushed by the dry pump, if you did this process while engine is running you will make damage
