Pulling my hair out. How do you check and adjust power steering fluid level on 400E - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

ps2cho · #1 09-21-2009, 07:21 PM

With this thread being here....Do you drain/flush PS fluid at all? Or just get it all out of the tower and refill?
I need to do this on both my cars. Never done it before.

Will_w202 · #2 09-21-2009, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ps2cho

With this thread being here....Do you drain/flush PS fluid at all? Or just get it all out of the tower and refill?
I need to do this on both my cars. Never done it before.

One thing I did find in my search were a couple threads about flushing. Sounds like you run a couple quarts through the system, turning the wheel back and forth, then filling. That's what I got out of it anyway.

I'm hoping I can limp my old, dried-out, heat-overexposed pump along indefinitely by just adding some fluid every few k

pawoSD · #3 09-21-2009, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Will_w202

One thing I did find in my search were a couple threads about flushing. Sounds like you run a couple quarts through the system, turning the wheel back and forth, then filling. That's what I got out of it anyway.

I'm hoping I can limp my old, dried-out, heat-overexposed pump along indefinitely by just adding some fluid every few k

I've been limping the pump on my SD that way for a couple years now.....it leaks about a reservoir full every 1000 miles....I even have a spare pump....I've just been too lazy to install it.