Flushed my power steering system today. It took all of 10 minutes, including convincing the girlfriend to sit in the car while its running and turn the wheel side to side.

I used the method in the w123 howto sticky, and it worked great. I moved the washer fluid resevoir up and to the side, and used a gallon veggie oil bottle as the catch canister. I spilled a little fluid while removing the return line hose, but not much else. The narrow mouth of the bottle kept splashing to a minimum, even though the fluid came out in great spurts.

I flushed with two quarts of STP power steering fluid, and then filled with Valvoline Synpower and a new Mann filter. We'll see if it works. I know the manual recommends ATF, but I gather that ATF of yesteryear is different than ATF of today, and that today, PS fluid should be used instead. Hope that's true.

Point is, the stuff that came out was GROSS. Black and yucky, with little chunks. Flush your PS if you haven't done it recently!

peace,
sam

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