How to Fill Bleed Power Steering System 2002-08 Dodge Ram

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In this video, we're going to show you how to fill and bleed the power steering fluid in your 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 Hemi. This process is going to be very similar for just about any other vehicle that uses power steering. Some reasons you might be doing this are: you've flushed the fluid or you've changed the power steering component. Maybe a line fell off and you ran low on fluid, got the line back together, and didn't have to replace anything, but now, you're getting sort of a whirling, bubbling noise and your power steering is not quite what it used to be. We're going to show you how to fill that fluid up and bleed all the air out of the system to get your power steering functioning correctly again.

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Here are the items you'll need for this repair.

Remove the cap from the power steering reservoir. Insert a clean funnel. This particular vehicle uses ATF +4 transmission fluid as opposed to a traditional power steering fluid, so we'll fill the reservoir up with that.

To reduce some of the load on the power steering system and allow the fluid to flow more freely, we're going to partially raise and support our vehicle just to take a little bit of weight off the front tires. You can do this with a jack and jack stand at home and we're using a lift. Leave the tires touching the ground partially. We're going to start it with the power steering cap off and run the wheels back and forth to the full locked position, hold it there for several seconds and rotate it the other way. You may splash some fluid here so we've put the funnel in to try to contain that and just to be safe, we've put a drain bucket underneath our reservoir.

Start up the vehicle, work the wheel back and forth to the fully locked position, and to the other side. We'll repeat this process a few times. Again, the power steering reservoir cap is off right now. This will allow air to bleed out of the system.

We'll recheck our fluid level and repeat the steps several times. Our fluid level is right where it should be, so now we'll reinstall our cap, test drive the vehicle to make sure that our power steering is assisting just the way it should.

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How to Fill Bleed Power Steering System 2002-08 Dodge Ram

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